S3537A-2011 Actions

• May 10, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 3537B
• May 10, 2012: AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE
• Apr 18, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Jan 5, 2012: PRINT NUMBER 3537A
• Jan 5, 2012: AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
• Jun 24, 2011: COMMITTED TO RULES
• Jun 1, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• May 25, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• May 24, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.853
• Mar 8, 2011: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Feb 24, 2011: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

S3537A-2011 Meetings

S3537A-2011 Votes

S3537A-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3537

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting parole for any
inmates convicted for homicide unless five or more members of the
parole board are present at the hearing

PURPOSE:
To prohibit parole for any inmates convicted of homicide unless five
or more members of the Parole Board are present at the hearing

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Amends section 259-c of the Executive law to prohibit parole for any
inmates convicted of homicide unless five or more members of the
Parole Board are present at the hearing.

JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is designed to ensure that adequate review is made of a
prisoner's request for parole.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2009-10:  S.2671 Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
2008-07:  S.745 Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
2006-05:  S.2384 Passed Senate
2004:     S.5826 Passed Senate

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
Minimal.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately, with provisions.

S3537A-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 3537--A
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 24, 2011
 
 Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
 Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction  in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee
 

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting parole for
 any inmates convicted of homicide unless five or more members  of  the
 parole board are present at the hearing
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 259-c of  the  executive  law,  as
 amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:

 1.  have  the  power  and duty of determining which inmates serving an
 indeterminate or determinate sentence of imprisonment may be released on
 parole,  or  on  medical  parole  pursuant  to   section   two   hundred
 fifty-nine-r  or  section  two hundred fifty-nine-s of this article, and
 when and under what conditions; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT PAROLE SHALL NOT
 BE GRANTED FOR ANY HOMICIDE OFFENSES AS DEFINED IN ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED
 TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THE  PENAL LAW UNLESS FIVE OR MORE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
 ARE PRESENT AT SUCH HEARING;
 

S 2. Subdivision 1 of section 259-c of the executive law,  as  amended
 by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:

 1.  have  the  power  and duty of determining which inmates serving an
 indeterminate sentence of imprisonment may be released on parole, or  on
 medical  parole  pursuant  to  section  two hundred fifty-nine-r of this
 article, and when and under what  conditions;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT
 PAROLE  SHALL  NOT  BE  GRANTED  FOR ANY HOMICIDE OFFENSES AS DEFINED IN
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THE PENAL LAW  UNLESS  FIVE  OR  MORE
 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE PRESENT AT SUCH HEARING;
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09509-03-2
 
       S. 3537--A                          2
 

S 3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that:

 the  amendments  to subdivision 1 of section 259-c of the executive law,
 made by section one of this act, shall be subject to the expiration  and
 reversion of such subdivision pursuant to subdivision d of section 74 of
 chapter  3  of  the  laws  of  1995, as amended, when upon such date the
 provisions of section two of this act shall take effect.

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