Bill Text: NY A04896 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires parole violators in the counties of Jefferson, Oswego, and Saint Lawrence to be transferred to state correctional facilities after 10 days in a local correctional facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A04896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4896
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BLANKENBUSH, FINCH, GIGLIO, CROUCH -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to parole  violators  in
          Jefferson,  Oswego, and Saint Lawrence counties; and providing for the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 23-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 23-a. Transfer of parole violators. 1.  In the counties  of  Jeffer-
     4  son,  Oswego,  and  St.  Lawrence, if any person presumptively released,
     5  paroled, conditionally released, released to  post-release  supervision,
     6  or  received  under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee supervision
     7  shall have been arrested for violating one or more conditions of his  or
     8  her  presumptive  release,  parole,  conditional release or post-release
     9  supervision, such person, after ten business days in any  local  correc-
    10  tional facility, shall either be:
    11    a.  transferred  to  a state correctional facility, with the costs and
    12  responsibilities associated with such transfer borne by  the  department
    13  pursuant to section six hundred two of this chapter; or
    14    b.  kept  in such local correctional facility, with the county's costs
    15  of such temporary detainment reimbursed by  the  department  where  such
    16  person  has been convicted of a parole violation and a sentence has been
    17  pronounced which requires that he or she be committed to the custody  of
    18  the commissioner.
    19    2.  The  provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
    20  if the appropriate court grants an extension authorizing the detainee to
    21  remain in the local correctional facility for  up  to  twenty  days  per
    22  extension.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    24  it  shall  have  become  a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed 2
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 4896                             2
     1  years after such effective date.  Effective immediately,  the  addition,
     2  amendment  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule or regulation necessary for the
     3  implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized  to  be
     4  made on or before such date.