Bill Text: NY S05316 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that where the board has made a determination granting discretionary release to an incarcerated individual pursuant to this section, the crime victim or the victim's representative, where the crime victim is deceased or is mentally or physically incapacitated, has the right to file an appeal of such determination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05316-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5316

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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 appeals to the state
          board of parole

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of section 259-I of the executive law, as
     2  added by chapter 904 of the laws of 1977, paragraph (a)  as  amended  by
     3  section 11 of part E of chapter 62 of the laws of 2003, paragraph (b) as
     4  amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, and paragraph (c) as amended
     5  by chapter 44 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     6    4.  Appeals. (a) Except for determinations made upon preliminary hear-
     7  ings upon allegations  of  violation  of  presumptive  release,  parole,
     8  conditional release or post-release supervision, all determinations made
     9  pursuant  to  this  section  may  be  appealed  in accordance with rules
    10  promulgated by the board. Any board member who participated in the deci-
    11  sion from which the appeal is taken may not participate  in  the  resol-
    12  ution  of  that appeal. The rules of the board may specify a time within
    13  which any appeal shall be taken and resolved.
    14    (b) Upon an appeal to the board, the incarcerated  individual  may  be
    15  represented  by an attorney. Where the incarcerated individual is finan-
    16  cially unable to provide for his or her own attorney,  upon  request  an
    17  attorney  shall  be  assigned pursuant to the provisions of subparagraph
    18  (v) of paragraph (f) of subdivision three of this section.
    19    (c) Where the board has made a  determination  granting  discretionary
    20  release  to  an  incarcerated  individual  pursuant to this section, the
    21  crime victim or the victim's representative, where the crime  victim  is
    22  deceased  or  is  mentally or physically incapacitated, has the right to
    23  file an appeal of such determination in accordance with rules promulgat-
    24  ed by the board.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09255-01-3

        S. 5316                             2

     1    (d) All board of parole administrative appeal findings and recommenda-
     2  tions shall be published within one hundred twenty days of the  determi-
     3  nation  on a publicly accessible website that includes a word-searchable
     4  database. The department of corrections and community supervision  shall
     5  provide  electronic or print copies of such findings and recommendations
     6  to all correctional facility law libraries on a quarterly basis.  Copies
     7  of  such  individual  findings  and  recommendations  shall also be made
     8  available upon written request to  the  department  of  corrections  and
     9  community supervision. Information which would reveal confidential mate-
    10  rial  that may not be released pursuant to federal or state law shall be
    11  redacted from any such website or findings and recommendations.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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