Bill Text: NY S07934 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring at least one member of the state board of parole be a formerly incarcerated person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S07934 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07934-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7934

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 3, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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 requiring at least one
          member of the state board of parole be a formerly incarcerated person

          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 259-b of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  amended by section 38-a of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
     3  of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1.  There  shall  be  in  the department a state board of parole which
     5  shall possess the powers and duties  hereinafter  specified.  The  board
     6  shall  function  independently  of  the  department regarding all of its
     7  decision-making functions, as well as any other powers and duties speci-
     8  fied in this article, provided, however, that administrative matters  of
     9  general  applicability  within the department shall be applicable to the
    10  board. Such board shall  consist  of  not  more  than  nineteen  members
    11  appointed  by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. At
    12  least one member of the board shall be a formerly  incarcerated  person.
    13  The  term of office of each member of such board shall be for six years;
    14  provided, however, that any member chosen to fill  a  vacancy  occurring
    15  otherwise  than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the remain-
    16  der of the unexpired term of the member whom he is to  succeed.  In  the
    17  event  of  the  inability to act of any member, the governor may appoint
    18  some competent informed person to act in his stead  during  the  contin-
    19  uance of such disability.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14495-01-9