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Senate Bill S10349

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the department of corrections and community supervision from using artificial intelligence in parole determinations

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S10349 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11320
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-c, Exec L; amd §71-a, Cor L

2025-S10349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the department of corrections and community supervision from using artificial intelligence in evaluating the risk and needs principles used to measure rehabilitation of a person, in determining which incarcerated individuals may be released on parole or the level of supervision for individuals on parole; prohibits the department from using artificial intelligence when developing transitional accountability plans.

2025-S10349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10349
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
   Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the correction law, in relation to
   prohibiting  the  use  of  artificial  intelligence in parole determi-
   nations and the development transitional accountability plans

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 259-c of the executive law, as
 amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. establish written procedures for its use in making parole decisions
 as  required  by law. Such written procedures shall incorporate risk and
 needs principles to measure  the  rehabilitation  of  persons  appearing
 before  the  board,  the  likelihood  of  success  of  such persons upon
 release, and assist members of the state board of parole in  determining
 which  incarcerated  individuals  may be released to parole supervision;
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE DEPARTMENT MAY NOT USE "ARTIFICIAL  INTELLI-
 GENCE"  AS  DEFINED BY SECTION SEVENTEEN HUNDRED OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS
 LAW, AN "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODEL" AS DEFINED BY  SECTION  FOURTEEN
 HUNDRED  TWENTY  OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW, OR AN "ARTIFICIAL INTELLI-
 GENCE SYSTEM" AS DEFINED BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED  THREE-E  OF  THE  STATE
 TECHNOLOGY LAW IN EVALUATING THE RISK AND NEEDS PRINCIPLES USED TO MEAS-
 URE  THE REHABILITATION OF PERSONS APPEARING BEFORE THE BOARD, IN DETER-
 MINING WHICH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS MAY BE RELEASED TO  PAROLE  SUPER-
 VISION,  OR  IN DETERMINING THE LEVEL OF SUPERVISION FOR PERSONS WHO ARE
 RELEASED ON PAROLE; PROVIDED FURTHER, HOWEVER, THAT EACH PERSON APPROVED
 FOR RELEASE AND THE LEVEL OF SUPERVISION ASSIGNED TO SUCH  PERSON  SHALL
 BE APPROVED IN WRITING BY THE BOARD OF PAROLE OR ITS DESIGNEE;
   §  2. Section 71-a of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of
 the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 71-a. Transitional accountability plan. Upon admission of an  incar-
 cerated  individual  committed to the custody of the department under an
 indeterminate or determinate sentence of  imprisonment,  the  department
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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