Bill Text: NY A03521 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the executive law, in relation to the composition of the state board of parole and parole hearing officers

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to codes [A03521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A03521-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3521
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. DIAZ,
         HOOPER, J. RIVERA, TITUS, TOWNS --  read  once  and  referred  to  the
         Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the composition of the
         state board of parole and parole hearing officers
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND AFTER THE
    4  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE SHALL BE
    5  SO CONSTITUTED THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE MEMBERS RESIDING IN ANY COUNTY
    6  OF THE STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN THE  SAME  PROPORTION
    7  AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INMATE POPULATION BEARS TO THE TOTAL POPU-
    8  LATION OF THE STATE.
    9    S  2.  Section  259-d  of the executive law is amended by adding a new
   10  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   11    3. WITH RESPECT TO MEMBERS APPOINTED OR REAPPOINTED ON AND  AFTER  THE
   12  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, THE STATE BOARD OF PAROLE SHALL BE
   13  SO CONSTITUTED THAT THE PROPORTION OF THE HEARING OFFICERS  RESIDING  IN
   14  ANY  COUNTY  OF THE STATE SHALL BE REASONABLY EQUIVALENT AND IN THE SAME
   15  PROPORTION AS THE RESIDENT COUNTY OF THE INMATE POPULATION BEARS TO  THE
   16  TOTAL POPULATION OF THE STATE.
   17    S  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   18  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01701-01-9