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Senate Bill S2508

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs

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2025-S2508 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A495
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7843, A4888

2025-S2508 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.

2025-S2508 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2508 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2508
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 correction law, in relation to conditional release
   for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  and clause (A) of subparagraph (ii) of
 paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 803-b of the  correction  law,
 subparagraph  (i)  as  added by section 4 of part L of chapter 56 of the
 laws of 2009, and clause (A) of subparagraph (ii) as amended by  chapter
 322 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
   (i)  in the case of an eligible offender who is subject to an indeter-
 minate sentence with a maximum term of life imprisonment, such  offender
 shall  be  eligible  for release six months before the completion of the
 controlling minimum period of imprisonment as defined by subdivision one
 of section 70.40 of the penal law, EXCEPT THAT SUCH  OFFENDER  SHALL  BE
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  RELEASE  TWELVE  MONTHS  BEFORE THE   COMPLETION OF   THE
 CONTROLLING  MINIMUM  PERIOD  OF IMPRISONMENT  AS  DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF SECTION 70.40 OF THE PENAL LAW FOR EACH  SUCCESSIVE  SIGNIF-
 ICANT  PROGRAMMATIC  ACCOMPLISHMENT  AS  DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF
 PARAGRAPH (C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION; or
   (A) in the case of an eligible offender who is not subject to an inde-
 terminate sentence with a maximum term of life imprisonment, such offen-
 der shall be eligible for conditional release six months earlier than as
 provided by paragraph (b) of subdivision one of  section  70.40  of  the
 penal  law,  provided  that  the department determines such offender has
 earned the full amount of good time authorized by section eight  hundred
 three  of  this article, EXCEPT THAT SUCH OFFENDER SHALL BE ELIGIBLE FOR
 RELEASE TWELVE MONTHS BEFORE THE   COMPLETION   OF    THE    CONTROLLING
 MINIMUM    PERIOD   OF IMPRISONMENT   AS  DEFINED  BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00605-01-5

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