Bill Text: NY A07975 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the length of time the board of parole maintains records of parole interviews and hearings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A07975 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07975-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7975

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 29, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WALKER -- (at request of the Board of Parole) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to setting the period for
          retaining verbatim records of interviews and hearings

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision 6 of section 259-i of the
     2  executive law, as added by section 1 of part T of chapter 62 of the laws
     3  of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) The [chairman] chairperson of the board of parole  shall  maintain
     5  such  verbatim  records  of  all parole interviews and hearings for each
     6  offender during the course of his or her sentence and for  a  period  of
     7  [twenty-five  years]  seven  years  from the date of the [parole release
     8  interview or until] expiration or discharge of  [the  maximum  term  of]
     9  such sentence or the death of such offender.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09064-01-9
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