Assembly Bill A59

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires victims be notified of right to make a victim impact statement and allows them to personally appear at parole hearings and make such a statement

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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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2025-A59 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §440.50, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9074
2023-2024: A2724

2025-A59 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the district attorney to notify victims by letter of the final disposition of the case within sixty days of such disposition in cases where such final disposition includes a conviction; provides such letter shall also notify victims of their right to make a victim impact statement; allows them to personally appear at parole hearings and make such a statement.

2025-A59 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    59
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PHEFFER AMATO, WOERNER, JONES, BUTTENSCHON --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   victims  be  informed of their right to make a victim impact statement
   to the division of parole and to appear at parole hearings
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 440.50 of the criminal procedure
 law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended  to  read
 as follows:
   1.  [Upon  the  request of a victim of a crime, or in any event in all
 cases in which the final disposition includes a conviction of a  violent
 felony  offense  as  defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, a felony
 defined in article one hundred twenty-five of  such  law,  or  a  felony
 defined  in article one hundred thirty of such law, the] IN ALL CASES IN
 WHICH THE FINAL DISPOSITION INCLUDES A CONVICTION, THE district attorney
 shall, within sixty days of [the] SUCH final disposition [of the  case],
 inform  the  victim by letter of such [final disposition] CONVICTION. If
 such final disposition results in the commitment of the defendant to the
 custody of the department of corrections and community  supervision  for
 an indeterminate sentence, the notice provided to the crime victim shall
 also  inform  the victim of [his or her] SUCH VICTIM'S right to submit a
 written, audiotaped,  or  videotaped  victim  impact  statement  to  the
 department   of   corrections  and  community  supervision  or  to  meet
 personally with a member of the state board of  parole  at  a  time  and
 place  separate  from the personal interview between a member or members
 of the board and the incarcerated individual and make such a  statement,
 subject  to  procedures and limitations contained in rules of the board,
 both pursuant to subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-nine-i  of
 the  executive law. A copy of such letter shall be provided to the board
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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