Bill Text: NY A10655 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the parole board accountability act which requires incarcerated individuals who are released on parole, via a vote that is not unanimous, be placed in the community where one of the two board members primarily reside; establishes the procedure of which of the two board member's community the releasee shall be released to.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-22 - referred to correction [A10655 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10655-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10655

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Hawley) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the executive  law,  in  relation  to  establishing  the
          parole board accountability act.

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "parole board accountability act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 259-u to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 259-u.  Parole board accountability. 1. Where the board  votes  that
     6  an  incarcerated  individual be released on parole, but such vote is not
     7  unanimous, the department shall direct such releasee be  released  to  a
     8  shelter,  halfway  house,  or a transitional residential facility in the
     9  community of one of the two board members who  voted  in  favor  of  the
    10  releasee primarily reside.
    11    2.  The  commissioner  shall rely on a coin flip to determine which of
    12  the two board member's community the releasee shall be released to. Such
    13  coin flip shall be conducted and made publicly available via live stream
    14  on the department's website.
    15    3. Upon the results of such coin flip pursuant to subdivision  two  of
    16  this  section,  the  department  shall place such releasee in a shelter,
    17  halfway house, or a transitional residential facility that is  geograph-
    18  ically  closest  to  the board member's primary residence who was chosen
    19  pursuant to such coin flip.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15861-01-4