Requires the membership of the state board of parole, and parole hearing officers to be composed of a proportionate share of residents of each county to reflect the state's inmate population.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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289
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the composition of the
state board of parole and parole hearing officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
3 2-a. With respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the
4 effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole shall be
5 so constituted that the proportion of the members residing in any county
6 of the state shall be reasonably equivalent and in the same proportion
7 as the resident county of the inmate population bears to the total popu-
8 lation of the state.
9 § 2. Section 259-d of the executive law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
11 3. With respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the
12 effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole shall be
13 so constituted that the proportion of the hearing officers residing in
14 any county of the state shall be reasonably equivalent and in the same
15 proportion as the resident county of the inmate population bears to the
16 total population of the state.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02340-01-1
