Bill Text: NY A05250 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5250

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to retaining peace officer status for facilities parole officers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A05250 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05250-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5250

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to retaining
          peace officer status for parole officers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  23 of section 2.10 of the criminal procedure
     2  law, as amended by section 70 of subpart B of part C of  chapter  62  of
     3  the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    23.   Parole  officers  or  warrant  officers  in  the  department  of
     5  corrections and community supervision and offender rehabilitation  coor-
     6  dinators  whose  job functions include the following: assigned to one or
     7  more of the state's correctional  facilities;  provide  guidance  to  an
     8  assigned  caseload of incarcerated individuals and assess needs, prepare
     9  evaluations, and prepare eligible incarcerated individuals  for  release
    10  into  the community; make recommendations to the board of parole regard-
    11  ing incarcerated individual's readiness for release; perform both social
    12  work and law enforcement functions; trained in use of  firearms,  handle
    13  and discharge firearms.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05890-01-3