Bill Text: NY S05220 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the district attorney to notify victims by letter of the final disposition of the case within sixty days of such disposition; such letter shall also notify victims of their right to make a victim impact statement and allows them to personally appear at parole hearing and make such a statement.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05220 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05220-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5220 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 16, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring victims be informed of right to make victim impact statement to divi- sion of parole and to appear at parole hearing 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 440.50 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as amended by section 80 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of 3 the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 1. [Upon the request of a victim of a crime, or in any event in all5cases in which the final disposition includes a conviction of a violent6felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law or a felony7defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law, the] The 8 district attorney shall, within sixty days of the final disposition of 9 the case, inform the victim by letter of such final disposition. If such 10 final disposition results in the commitment of the defendant to the 11 custody of the department of corrections and community supervision for 12 an indeterminate sentence, the notice provided to the crime victim shall 13 also inform the victim of his or her right to submit a written, audio- 14 taped, or videotaped victim impact statement to the department of 15 corrections and community supervision or to [meet] personally [with a16member of the state board of parole] appear at [a time and place sepa-17rate from] the personal interview between a member or members of the 18 board and the inmate and make such a statement, subject to procedures 19 and limitations contained in rules of the board, both pursuant to subdi- 20 vision two of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law. The 21 right of the victim under this subdivision to submit a written victim 22 impact statement or to meet personally with a member of the state board 23 of parole applies to each personal interview between a member or members 24 of the board and the inmate. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03476-01-7