Bill Text: NY A10879 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to work related labor protests not being considered a parole violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-24 - referred to codes [A10879 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10879-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10879

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 24, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Joyner) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, the correction law, and  the
          executive  law,  in  relation to work related labor protests not being
          considered a parole violation

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

     1    Section  1. Section 410.10 of the criminal procedure law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. When the court pronounces a sentence of  probation  or  conditional
     4  discharge,  the  court  shall  provide  that work related labor protests
     5  shall not be considered a violation of such  sentence  of  probation  or
     6  conditional discharge.
     7    § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 209 to read
     8  as follows:
     9    §  209.  Permitted activities. Where any person is granted presumptive
    10  release, parole, conditional release or release to  post-release  super-
    11  vision,  such  person  shall not be deemed to be in violation of and the
    12  department shall not terminate such granted presumptive release, parole,
    13  conditional  release  or  release  to  post-release  supervision  solely
    14  because such person participated in work related labor protests.
    15    §  3.  Section  274  of  the correction law is amended by adding a new
    16  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    17    11. The commission, or any member thereof, shall not determine that  a
    18  person who has been conditionally released has lapsed into criminal ways
    19  or  company,  or  has  violated  one  or  more conditions of conditional
    20  release because such person participated in work related labor protests.
    21    § 4. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  259-t  to
    22  read as follows:
    23    § 259-t. Permitted activities. Where any person is granted presumptive
    24  release,  parole,  conditional  release,  release to post-release super-
    25  vision or any other type of  supervised  release,  the  state  board  of
    26  parole shall not deem a person to be in violation of and the state board
    27  of  parole shall not terminate such granted presumptive release, parole,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  conditional release, release to post-release supervision  or  any  other
     2  type  of  supervised  release solely because such person participated in
     3  work related labor protests.
     4    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.