Bill Text: NY S04335 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger; provides if such individual is convicted of a crime prior to their twenty-second birthday for which they were sentenced to a period of incarceration greater than 20 years, they shall be eligible for parole after twenty years of incarceration.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04335 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S04335-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4335 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 4 person convicted of a crime or crimes which they committed prior to 5 their twenty-second birthday and for which they were sentenced to serve 6 a period of incarceration greater than twenty years shall be eligible 7 for parole after twenty years of incarceration. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08794-01-3
