Bill Text: NY A05479 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the state board of parole to provide notification to victims upon the conditional release of an inmate convicted of a crime against a member of the same family or household.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A05479 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05479-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5479 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 12, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to notification of certain persons upon the conditional release of an inmate convicted of a crime against a member of the same family or household The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 259-c of the executive law, as 2 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws 3 of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. have the power and duty of determining the conditions of release of 5 the person who may be presumptively released, conditionally released or 6 subject to a period of post-release supervision under an indeterminate 7 or determinate sentence of imprisonment. Where an inmate to be condi- 8 tionally released was convicted of a crime and the victim is or was a 9 member of the same family or household as the inmate it shall be the 10 duty of the board at least one week prior to the release to notify the 11 victim or victims of such offense, unless the victim refuses or his or 12 her whereabouts are unknown, that the inmate is being released and of 13 the conditions of such release. Such notification shall be sent by elec- 14 tronic mail when the electronic mail address of the victim or victims is 15 available, and when it is not, by certified mail to the last known 16 address of the victim or victims. When such address is a shelter for 17 victims of domestic abuse notice shall also be given to the director or 18 administrator of such shelter. For purposes of this subdivision, 19 "members of the same family or household" shall mean the following: 20 (a) persons related by consanguinity or affinity; 21 (b) persons legally married to one another; 22 (c) persons formerly married to one another; 23 (d) persons who have a child in common, regardless of whether such 24 persons have been married or have lived together at any time; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08330-01-9A. 5479 2 1 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 259-c of the executive law, as added by 2 chapter 904 of the laws of 1977 and amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 3 1998, is amended to read as follows: 4 2. have the power and duty of determining the conditions of release of 5 the person who may be conditionally released or subject to a period of 6 post-release supervision under an indeterminate or reformatory sentence 7 of imprisonment and of determining which inmates serving a definite 8 sentence of imprisonment may be conditionally released and when and 9 under what conditions. Where an inmate to be conditionally released was 10 convicted of a crime and the victim is or was a member of the same fami- 11 ly or household as the inmate it shall be the duty of the board at least 12 one week prior to the release to notify the victim or victims of such 13 offense, unless the victim refuses or his or her whereabouts are 14 unknown, that the inmate is being released and of the conditions of such 15 release. Such notification shall be sent by electronic mail when the 16 electronic mail address of the victim or victims is available, and when 17 it is not, by certified mail to the last known address of the victim or 18 victims. When such address is a shelter for victims of domestic abuse 19 notice shall also be given to the director or administrator of such 20 shelter. For purposes of this subdivision, "members of the same family 21 or household" shall mean the following: 22 (a) persons related by consanguinity or affinity; 23 (b) persons legally married to one another; 24 (c) persons formerly married to one another; 25 (d) persons who have a child in common, regardless of whether such 26 persons have been married or have lived together at any time; 27 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 28 have become a law; provided that the amendments to subdivision 2 of 29 section 259-c of the executive law, made by section one of this act, 30 shall not affect the expiration and reversion of such subdivision and 31 shall expire therewith, when upon such date the provisions of section 32 two of this act shall take effect; and shall apply to all inmates condi- 33 tionally released on or after the effective date of this act.