Assembly Bill A8960

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring board of parole administrative appeal findings and recommendations to be published on a website and provided to correctional facility law libraries

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S7333 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-A8960 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7333
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L (as proposed in A. 3053 and S. 3982)

2017-A8960 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires board of parole administrative appeal findings and recommendations to be published on a website with a word-searchable database and provided to correctional facility law libraries on a quarterly basis.

2017-A8960 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8960
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to requiring board of
   parole  administrative  appeal  findings  and  recommendations  to  be
   published  on  a  website  and  provided  to correctional facility law
   libraries
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 4 of section 259-i of the
 executive law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017,  amending  the
 executive  law relating to requiring parole decisions to be published on
 a website, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 3053 and S. 3982,
 is amended to read as follows:
   (c) All BOARD OF PAROLE ADMINISTRATIVE appeal [decisions] FINDINGS AND
 RECOMMENDATIONS shall be published within  [sixty]  ONE  HUNDRED  TWENTY
 days of the determination on a publicly accessible website that includes
 a  word-searchable database [and cumulative subject matter index of such
 decisions. Such subject matter index  shall  be  published  annually  in
 print  form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries]. THE
 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION SHALL PROVIDE  ELEC-
 TRONIC  OR  PRINT  COPIES  OF  SUCH  FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO ALL
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITY LAW LIBRARIES ON A QUARTERLY  BASIS.    Copies  of
 such individual [appeal decisions and subject matter index] FINDINGS AND
 RECOMMENDATIONS shall also be made available upon written request to the
 [board]  DEPARTMENT  OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION.  Informa-
 tion which would reveal confidential material that may not  be  released
 pursuant  to  federal  or  state  law  shall  be  redacted from any such
 website[, decision and index] OR FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2017, amending the executive law
 relating to requiring parole decisions to be published on a website,  as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers A.3053 and S.3982, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06681-03-8

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