Assembly Bill A4616

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit times allowances to those inmates having completed eighty percent of their original sentence

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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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2021-A4616 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3171

2021-A4616 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit times allowances to those inmates having completed eighty percent of their original sentence.

2021-A4616 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4616
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to eligibility for
   limited credit time allowances for inmates  serving  indeterminate  or
   determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  803-b  of  the correction law is amended by adding a new clause
 (D) to read as follows:
   (D) AN INMATE SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE  FOR  THE  CREDIT  DEFINED  HEREIN
 BEFORE HAVING COMPLETED EIGHTY PERCENT OF HIS OR HER ORIGINAL SENTENCE.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
 sentences imposed on and after such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08835-01-1

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