Alters the composition of the state board of parole to include members to be appointed upon the recommendation of the four legislative leaders. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Provides inmates the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma; instructs the department of corrections to ensure that academic education programs provide the appropriate curriculum and certified academic staff for GED instruction. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Provides that stalking by technological means, including illegal wiretapping, cell phones, caller ID, Internet, cameras and GPS systems, shall be prohibited and shall be included in the crimes of stalking in the first, second and third degrees. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee:

Requires free, routine distribution of condoms to inmates. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Provides that correctional institution officials shall provide instruction to and assist certain prisoners, at least ninety days prior to their release, to apply to receive Medicaid after their release. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Directs social services districts to contract with non-residential programs for victims of domestic violence to provide outreach and education to students in public and private high schools; provides for state reimbursement therefor. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Allows certain inmates to be granted a merit time allowance; allows inmates who are victims are able to prove that they were subjected to substantial physical, sexual or psychological abuse, that the abuse was inflicted by a member of their same family or household or a member of the person's immediate family, and that the abuse was a substantial factor in causing them to commit the crime to be eligible to earn merit time in the amount of one-third off either their minimum sentence (if inmate has an indeterminate sentence) or their flat sentence; allows such inmates to be eligible for presumptive release; expands the criteria that a person in custody of the department of correctional services may meet in order to earn merit time. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Relates to controlled substances and indeterminate sentences; relates to the expansion of merit time and repeals provisions relating to the allowance of limited credit time for inmates. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Directs the head of any correctional institution to charge taxes on sales of items sold in commissaries and canteens; such tax receipts to be allocated to localities otherwise prescribed by law. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Permits correction officers to be color blind. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Requires inmates in state and county-owned or operated correctional facilities to make medical co-payments of seven dollars upon receipt of medical treatment; provides that an inmate shall not be refused treatment for lack of ability to pay co-payment charges; directs all moneys collected to be made available for the operation of such correctional facility. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Authorizes the employment of state and local work release inmates by not-for-profit organizations and public service projects; provides that inmates and prisoners may refuse to participate in employment by a not-for-profit organization when such employment is contrary to his or her religious or ideological beliefs. / Sponsor: YOUNG Committee:

Requires inmates incarcerated for a class A-I felony, requesting a delay of their parole hearing, to submit such request to the state board of parole. / Sponsor: MARTINS Committee:

Prohibits permissible employment, and volunteer activities that may be preformed by convicted sex offenders; specifically, prohibits a sex offender to have unsupervised access to residential living quarters. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Requires the commissioner of correctional services to enter into agreements with counties and the city of New York to take custody of inmates serving a definite sentence of more than 90 days to alleviate overcrowding in local correctional facilities. / Sponsor: SALAND Committee:

Authorizes imposition of a sentence of conditional discharge pending the completion of a substance abuse treatment program licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and approved by the division of probation and correctional alternatives for first or second conviction of certain controlled substance possession or marihuana possession offenses provided such offender has no prior violent felony convictions. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Makes it a class E felony for a sex offender to submit fraudulent information regarding his or her identity or residence when registering or verifying under the Sex Offender Registration Act (Megan's Law). / Sponsor: ALESI Committee:

Prohibits prison work release programs from operating in areas zoned as exclusively residential by a municipality. / Sponsor: ALESI Committee:

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. / Sponsor: MARCELLINO Committee:

Provides that any person who knowingly harbors, houses or employs a sex offender who has failed to register or verify address and employment, and who fails to contact his or her local law enforcement agency regarding such sex offender is guilty of a class A misdemeanor. / Sponsor: RANZENHOFER Committee:

Directs the board of parole to maintain a current list of all inmates due to appear before a parole board on its internet homepage; directs such board to establish a means by which crime victims can register to receive notice of the date of the parole hearing of the inmate who committed the offense against such victim; directs such board to report to the governor and legislative leaders on a quarterly basis on those inmates granted parole; requires all members of the parole board to agree on the parole of an inmate convicted of a class A felony; requires notice of a parole hearing to be provided to the district attorney and the crime victim, nine months in advance of the parole hearing of an inmate; requires the crime victims fair treatment standard pamphlet to include information on registering with the board of parole to receive notice of the parole hearing of the person convicted of an offense against a crime victim. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Directs the office of victims services to consult with the office for the aging in establishing a program for home visitation for elderly and invalid victims of violent crime. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee:

Enacts "Brittany's Law" requiring registration of violent felony offenders; sets forth duties of the division of criminal justice services; establishes a special 900 telephone number; requires the division to maintain a subdirectory of violent predators. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee:

Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to permanently terminate the conjugal visit program, commonly known as the family reunion program; further directs such commissioner to prohibit the establishment of any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families the opportunity to privately meet for an extended period of time. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee:

Restricts a registered sex offender from residing within 500 feet of a school. / Sponsor: ZELDIN Committee:

Requires website providing sex offender registry information to be searchable by the zip code of a registrant's employment. / Sponsor: LANZA Committee:

Relates to enforcement of orders of child support against inmates; requires that inmates be notified of their right to seek modification of child support orders; provides a 180 day stay of enforcement following release; makes provisions permitting modification applicable to inmates incarcerated prior to effective date of such amendments. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Requires parole violators, after 10 days in a local correctional facility, to either be transferred to state correctional facilities or remain in such local facility with all associated costs borne by the state; provides for a 20-day extension period. / Sponsor: RITCHIE Committee:

Relates to the segregated confinement of inmates with serious mental illness. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Relates to expanding prison work release program eligibility and participation. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish and maintain a public website that provides information concerning specific visitation rules, regulations, policies and procedures for all correctional facilities. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Requires sex offenders who fail to register or verify their registration on two or more occasions to wear a location-tracking device while on probation, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision; failure to wear such device shall be a class D felony and grounds for revocation of parole and probation. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee:

Requires level 3 sex offenders and sexual predators to report to the law enforcement having jurisdiction to provide a current photograph every 90 days and whenever his or her probation officer or parole officer notices a significant change in the sex offenders physical appearance. / Sponsor: GRIFFO Committee:

Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to place incarcerated parents at correctional institutions and facilities closest to their children's home. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee:

Requires the commissioner to establish a staffing plan for all uniformed and non-uniformed employees; further requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities. / Sponsor: NOZZOLIO Committee: