STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4335

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 2023
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        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.
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