A07015 Summary:
| BILL NO | A07015 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S05283 |
| SPONSOR | Forrest |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §259-i, Exec L | |
| Relates to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger; provides if such individual is convicted of a crime prior to their twenty-second birthday for which they were sentenced to a period of incarceration greater than 20 years, they shall be eligible for parole after fifteen years of incarceration. | |
A07015 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7015 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 18, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to parole eligibility for crimes committed at age twenty-one or younger The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 259-i of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows: 3 10. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, any 4 person convicted of a crime or crimes which they committed prior to 5 their twenty-second birthday and for which they were sentenced to serve 6 a period of incarceration greater than twenty years shall be eligible 7 for parole after fifteen years of incarceration. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09736-02-5