Bill Text: NY A09808 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the establishment of a parole board nomination commission; such commission shall conduct searches and screenings for potential candidates to fill open seats on the state board of parole and provide the governor with no less than three and no more than seven candidate recommendations to fill each vacancy on the board.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A09808 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09808-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9808
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 9, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the establishment of a
          parole board nomination commission
          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,
    12  and  after  April  first,  two thousand eighteen, with the advice of the
    13  parole board nomination commission established in  section  two  hundred
    14  fifty-nine-bb of this article. The term of office of each member of such
    15  board  shall be for six years; provided, however, that any member chosen
    16  to fill a vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of  term  shall
    17  be appointed within forty-five days of such vacancy for the remainder of
    18  the  unexpired term of the member whom he is to succeed. In the event of
    19  the inability to act of any member, the governor may appoint some compe-
    20  tent informed person to act in his stead during the continuance of  such
    21  disability.
    22    §  2.  The  executive law is amended by adding a new section 259-bb to
    23  read as follows:
    24    § 259-bb. Parole board nomination commission. 1. No later  than  April
    25  first, two thousand eighteen, a parole board nomination commission shall
    26  be established.
    27    2.  Such  board shall consist of eleven members to be appointed in the
    28  following manner:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 9808                             2
     1    (a) five shall be appointed by the governor, two  of  which  shall  be
     2  individuals with a career in judicial reform and social justice;
     3    (b)  two  shall  be  appointed  by the speaker of the assembly, one of
     4  which shall be an individual with a career in judicial reform and social
     5  justice;
     6    (c) two shall be appointed by the majority leader of the  senate,  one
     7  of  which  shall  be  an individual with a career in judicial reform and
     8  social justice;
     9    (d) one shall be appointed by the minority leader in the assembly; and
    10    (e) one shall be appointed by the minority leader in the senate.
    11    3. The board shall  conduct  searches  and  screenings  for  potential
    12  candidates to fill open seats on the state board of parole. Such commis-
    13  sion shall provide the governor with no less than three and no more than
    14  seven candidate recommendations to fill each vacancy on the board.
    15    4.  If  the senate is not in session at the time a board nominee is to
    16  be confirmed, the governor is given full authority to name a nominee  of
    17  the  commission  as a temporary board member until the senate reconvenes
    18  and confirms such acting board member.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.