Assembly Bill A4036

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to medical parole

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A4036 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§259-r & 259-s, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9465
2013-2014: A4726
2015-2016: A670
2019-2020: A4235
2021-2022: A4347
2023-2024: A7190

2017-A4036 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to medical parole and determinations of whether a person released on medical parole is physically or cognitively incapable of presenting a danger to society.

2017-A4036 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4036
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, O'DONNELL, AUBRY, GOTTFRIED -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to medical parole
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 259-r of the
 executive law, as amended by section 38-l of subpart  A  of  part  C  of
 chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The  board  shall have the power to release on medical parole any
 inmate serving an indeterminate or determinate sentence of  imprisonment
 who,  pursuant to subdivision two of this section, has been certified to
 be suffering from a terminal condition, disease or syndrome and to be so
 debilitated or incapacitated as to create a reasonable probability  that
 he  or  she is physically or cognitively incapable of presenting [any] A
 danger to society, provided, however, that no inmate serving a  sentence
 imposed  upon  a conviction for murder in the first degree or an attempt
 or conspiracy to commit murder in the first degree shall be eligible for
 such release, and provided further that no  inmate  serving  a  sentence
 imposed  upon  a  conviction  for any of the following offenses shall be
 eligible for such  release  unless  in  the  case  of  an  indeterminate
 sentence he or she has served at least one-half of the minimum period of
 the  sentence  and  in  the case of a determinate sentence he or she has
 served at least one-half of the term of his or her determinate sentence:
 murder in the second degree,  manslaughter  in  the  first  degree,  any
 offense  defined  in  article  one hundred thirty of the penal law or an
 attempt to commit any of these  offenses.  Solely  for  the  purpose  of
 determining  medical  parole  eligibility pursuant to this section, such
 one-half of the minimum period of the indeterminate  sentence  and  one-
 half  of the term of the determinate sentence shall not be credited with
 any time served under the jurisdiction of the department  prior  to  the
 commencement  of  such  sentence  pursuant  to  the opening paragraph of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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