Bill Text: NY A04441 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state board of parole to include at least one member who is or was a member of law enforcement and at least one member who is a crime victim or crime victim's representative.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-04 - referred to correction [A04441 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A04441-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4441

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHLUDZINSKI -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the membership of  the
          state board of parole

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 259-b of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended by section 38-a of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  There  shall  be  in  the department a state board of parole which
     5  shall possess the powers and duties  hereinafter  specified.  The  board
     6  shall  function  independently  of  the  department regarding all of its
     7  decision-making functions, as well as any other powers and duties speci-
     8  fied in this article, provided, however, that administrative matters  of
     9  general  applicability  within the department shall be applicable to the
    10  board. Such board shall  consist  of  not  more  than  nineteen  members
    11  appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. The
    12  board  shall  include  at  least  one member who is employed or has been
    13  employed as a member of law enforcement and at least one member who is a
    14  crime victim or a crime victim's representative as defined  in  subpara-
    15  graph  (A)  of  paragraph  (c) of subdivision two of section two hundred
    16  fifty-nine-i of this article. The term of office of each member of  such
    17  board  shall be for six years; provided, however, that any member chosen
    18  to fill a vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of  term  shall
    19  be  appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term of the member whom
    20  [he is to succeed] they are succeeding.  In the event of  the  inability
    21  to  act  of any member, the governor may appoint some competent informed
    22  person to act in [his] their stead during the continuance of such  disa-
    23  bility.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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