Bill Text: NY S02064 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Limits temporary detention of defendants in violation of their release in a local correctional facility to 72 hours before transfer to state custody.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-15 - referred to correction [S02064 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02064-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2064--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 21, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  YOUNG  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction  -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to
          the Committee  on  Finance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to temporary detention of
          persons whose presumptive  release,  parole,  conditional  release  or
          post-release  supervision  alleged to have violated the terms of their
          release
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 3 of
     2  section 259-i of the executive law, as amended by  chapter  545  of  the
     3  laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  If  the parole officer having charge of a presumptively released,
     5  paroled or conditionally released person or a person released  to  post-
     6  release  supervision or a person received under the uniform act for out-
     7  of-state parolee supervision shall have reasonable cause to believe that
     8  such person has lapsed into criminal ways or company,  or  has  violated
     9  one  or  more conditions of his presumptive release, parole, conditional
    10  release or post-release supervision, such parole  officer  shall  report
    11  such  fact to a member of the board, or to any officer of the department
    12  designated by the board, and thereupon a warrant may be issued  for  the
    13  retaking  of  such  person and for his temporary detention in accordance
    14  with the rules of the board unless such person has been determined to be
    15  currently unfit to proceed to trial or is currently subject to a  tempo-
    16  rary  or  final  order  of observation pursuant to article seven hundred
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05983-04-6
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