Bill Text: NY A08037 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides certain immigrants with confidential consultation and assistance on potential petitions for executive clemency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A08037 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08037-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8037
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 25, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law,  in  relation  to  providing  certain
          immigrants  with confidential consultation and assistance on potential
          petitions for executive clemency
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subdivision 5 of section 94-b of
     2  the executive law, as added by chapter 206 of  the  laws  of  2014,  are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (m)  Encourage  and  assist  local  governments  in the development of
     5  activities to enhance civic engagement among immigrants and in immigrant
     6  communities; [and]
     7    (n) Provide or arrange for confidential consultation with an immigrant
     8  who has a prior conviction for one or more  offenses  or  crimes,  other
     9  than  violent  crimes  or  other  crimes  of a serious nature that might
    10  justify deportation of such individual, on the potential availability of
    11  executive clemency pursuant  to  article  two-A  of  this  chapter,  and
    12  provide or arrange for assistance with the filing of petitions therefor;
    13  and
    14    (o) Beginning in two thousand fifteen, by June fifteenth of each year,
    15  produce  a  report to the governor, the speaker of the assembly, and the
    16  temporary president of the  senate  describing  the  activities  of  the
    17  office, including but not limited to, summarizing calls received through
    18  the  hotline and website, information on ESOL training services provided
    19  by the office, the number of immigrants assisted through the opportunity
    20  centers, or an estimation thereof, the status of any workforce  develop-
    21  ment programs, and any other relevant information.
    22    §  2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, unless disclosure is
    23  required by lawful court order, no  personally-identifiable  information
    24  obtained  by  the  Office for New Americans or any agent thereof for the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11807-01-7
        A. 8037                             2
     1  purpose of confidential consultation and assistance related to a  poten-
     2  tial  petition  for  executive  clemency shall be disclosed to any other
     3  person or entity without the consent of  the  individual  to  whom  such
     4  information pertains.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.