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 release8interview 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