Senate Bill S4649

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the parole board to make a verbatim record of each parole release interview and revocation hearing within forty-five days after such interview or hearing

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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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2021-S4649 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §259-i, Exec L

2021-S4649 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that the parole board provide for the making of a verbatim record of each parole release interview and each preliminary or final revocation hearing within forty-five days after such interview or hearing; removes certain exceptions.

2021-S4649 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4649 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4649
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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 the parole
   board to make a verbatim record of each parole  release  interview  or
   revocation  hearing  within  forty-five  days  after such interview or
   hearing
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 6 of section 259-i of the
 executive law, as amended by chapter 363 of the laws of 2012, is amended
 to read as follows:
   (a) (i) The board shall provide for the making of a verbatim record of
 each parole release interview[, except  where  a  decision  is  made  to
 release  the  inmate  to  parole  supervision,] and each preliminary and
 final revocation hearing[, except when the  decision  of  the  presiding
 officer  after  such  hearings  result  in  a  dismissal  of all charged
 violations of parole, conditional release or post  release  supervision]
 WITHIN FORTY-FIVE DAYS AFTER SUCH INTERVIEW OR HEARING.
   (ii) [Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (i) of this para-
 graph,  the  board  shall provide for the making of a verbatim record of
 each parole release interview in] IN all proceedings where the inmate is
 a detained sex offender as such term is defined in  subdivision  (g)  of
 section  10.03  of the mental hygiene law[.], [Such] THE VERBATIM record
 OF EACH PAROLE RELEASE INTERVIEW MADE PURSUANT TO  SUBPARAGRAPH  (I)  OF
 THIS  PARAGRAPH shall be provided to the office of mental health for use
 by the multidisciplinary staff and the case  review  panel  pursuant  to
 section 10.05 of the mental hygiene law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09495-01-1

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