Bill Text: NY A03661 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3661 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires parole violators, after 10 days in a local correctional facility, to either be transferred to state correctional facilities or remain in such local facility with all associated costs borne by the state; provides for a 20-day extension period; provisions do not apply for NYC.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A03661 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03661-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3661
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER, COOK, CROUCH, GOODELL, RAIA, PALMESANO
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY, RIVERA, STEC --  read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to parole violators
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section  23-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  23-a.  Transfer of parole violators. 1. If any person presumptively
     4  released, paroled,  conditionally  released,  released  to  post-release
     5  supervision,  or received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee
     6  supervision shall have been arrested for violating one  or  more  condi-
     7  tions  of his or her presumptive release, parole, conditional release or
     8  post-release supervision, such person, after ten business  days  in  any
     9  local correctional facility, shall either be:
    10    a.  transferred  to  a state correctional facility, with the costs and
    11  responsibilities associated with such transfer borne by  the  department
    12  pursuant to section six hundred two of this chapter; or
    13    b.  kept  in such local correctional facility, with the county's costs
    14  of such temporary detainment reimbursed by  the  department  where  such
    15  person  has been convicted of a parole violation and a sentence has been
    16  pronounced which requires that he or she be committed to the custody  of
    17  the commissioner.
    18    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
    19  in any city having a population of one million or more  inhabitants,  or
    20  if the appropriate court grants an extension authorizing the detainee to
    21  remain  in  the  local  correctional  facility for up to twenty days per
    22  extension.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    24  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    25  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    26  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or
    27  before such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00390-01-9