Senate Bill S7934

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

  • 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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2019-S7934 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8891
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-b, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S1013, S8070, A3065
2023-2024: S4795, A5959

2019-S7934 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S7934 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7934 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7934
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 259-b of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended by section 38-a of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  There  shall  be  in  the department a state board of parole which
 shall possess the powers and duties  hereinafter  specified.  The  board
 shall  function  independently  of  the  department regarding all of its
 decision-making functions, as well as any other powers and duties speci-
 fied in this article, provided, however, that administrative matters  of
 general  applicability  within the department shall be applicable to the
 board. Such board shall  consist  of  not  more  than  nineteen  members
 appointed  by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. AT
 LEAST ONE MEMBER OF THE BOARD SHALL BE A FORMERLY  INCARCERATED  PERSON.
 The  term of office of each member of such board shall be for six years;
 provided, however, that any member chosen to fill  a  vacancy  occurring
 otherwise  than by expiration of term shall be appointed for the remain-
 der of the unexpired term of the member whom he is to  succeed.  In  the
 event  of  the  inability to act of any member, the governor may appoint
 some competent informed person to act in his stead  during  the  contin-
 uance of such disability.
   § 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

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