Bill Text: NY S01963 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit times allowances to those inmates having completed eighty percent of their original sentence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-16 - referred to correction [S01963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01963-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1963
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 15, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- 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 eligibility for
         limited credit time allowances for inmates  serving  indeterminate  or
         determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  1  of
    2  section  803-b  of  the correction law is amended by adding a new clause
    3  (D) to read as follows:
    4    (D) AN INMATE SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE  CREDIT  DEFINED  HEREIN
    5  BEFORE HAVING COMPLETED EIGHTY PERCENT OF HIS OR HER ORIGINAL SENTENCE.
    6    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    7  sentences imposed on and after such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD06630-01-5