Bill Text: NY A00036 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the membership of the state board of parole, and parole hearing officers to be composed of a proportionate share of residents of each county to reflect the state's inmate population.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A00036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00036-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           36
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. RIVERA,
          TITUS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the composition of the
          state board of parole and parole hearing officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. With respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the
     4  effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole  shall  be
     5  so constituted that the proportion of the members residing in any county
     6  of  the  state shall be reasonably equivalent and in the same proportion
     7  as the resident county of the inmate population bears to the total popu-
     8  lation of the state.
     9    § 2. Section 259-d of the executive law is amended  by  adding  a  new
    10  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    11    3.  With  respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the
    12  effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole  shall  be
    13  so  constituted  that the proportion of the hearing officers residing in
    14  any county of the state shall be reasonably equivalent and in  the  same
    15  proportion  as the resident county of the inmate population bears to the
    16  total population of the state.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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