Provides that a person who commits a crime during a period of post-release supervision and when such charge culminates in a new sentence, the period of post-release supervision shall be deemed interrupted for any period in which such person was held in pre-trial detention.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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820
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to crimes committed during
periods of post-release supervision
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 70.40 of the
2 penal law, as amended by chapter 427 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) When a person is alleged to have violated the terms of presumptive
5 release [or], parole, or conditional release from an indeterminate
6 sentence by absconding, and the state board of parole has declared such
7 person to be delinquent, the declaration of delinquency shall interrupt
8 the person's sentence as of the date of the delinquency and such inter-
9 ruption shall continue until the [releasee's] person's appearance in
10 response to a notice of violation or the date of the execution of a
11 warrant, whichever is earlier; provided however that when a person who
12 has been presumptively released, paroled, conditionally released from an
13 indeterminate sentence or is serving a period of post-release super-
14 vision is charged with a crime committed while under supervision, and
15 the charge or charges culminate in a new determinate or indeterminate
16 sentence, the board's rules shall provide for a declaration of delin-
17 quency pursuant to subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (d) of subdivision
18 three of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law and the
19 period of presumptive release, parole, conditional release or post-re-
20 lease supervision shall be deemed interrupted for any period of time in
21 which the person was held in pre-trial detention on the charge or charg-
22 es that culminated in such indeterminate or determinate sentence.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 70.40 of the penal law,
2 as amended by chapter 427 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (c) Any time spent by a person in custody from the time of execution
5 of a warrant pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section
6 two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive law to the time service of the
7 sentence resumes shall be credited against the term or maximum term of
8 the interrupted sentence; provided however that when a person who is
9 subject to an undischarged term of imprisonment or post-release super-
10 vision following parole release, presumptive release or conditional
11 release from an indeterminate sentence, or conditional release or maxi-
12 mum expiration of a determinate sentence, and is held in pre-trial
13 custody in a local correctional facility on a new charge or charges that
14 culminate in a new indeterminate or determinate sentence, the time spent
15 in pre-trial custody on such charge or charges, from the date custody
16 commenced to the date of commencement of the subsequently imposed inde-
17 terminate or determinate sentence, shall be credited to the new sentence
18 as jail time pursuant to subdivision three of section 70.30 of this
19 article, except for any time that has been credited to the previously
20 imposed sentence as a time assessment by the board of parole for a
21 violation of presumptive release, parole, conditional release or post-
22 release supervision between the date of the arrest on the new felony and
23 the date of sentencing for such felony.
24 § 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 5 of section 70.45 of the penal law,
25 as amended by chapter 427 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
26 follows:
27 (d) When a person is alleged to have violated a condition of post-re-
28 lease supervision by absconding, or by committing a new crime during the
29 period of post-release supervision that culminates in a new indetermi-
30 nate or determinate sentence, and the department of corrections and
31 community supervision has declared such person to be delinquent: (i) the
32 declaration of delinquency shall interrupt the period of post-release
33 supervision; (ii) such interruption shall continue until the person is
34 restored to post-release supervision; (iii) if the person is restored to
35 post-release supervision without being returned to the department of
36 corrections and community supervision, any time spent in custody from
37 the date of delinquency until restoration to post-release supervision
38 shall first be credited to the maximum or aggregate maximum term of the
39 sentence or sentences of imprisonment, but only to the extent authorized
40 by subdivision three of section 70.40 of this article. Any time spent
41 in custody solely pursuant to such delinquency after completion of the
42 maximum or aggregate maximum term of the sentence or sentences of impri-
43 sonment shall be credited to the period of post-release supervision, if
44 any; and (iv) if the person is ordered returned to the department of
45 corrections and community supervision, the person shall be required to
46 serve the time assessment before being re-released to post-release
47 supervision. If the person is detained pursuant to paragraph (a) of
48 subdivision three of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive
49 law pending a preliminary or final revocation hearing, the time assess-
50 ment imposed following such hearing shall commence upon the execution of
51 the warrant. If a warrant was executed pursuant to paragraph (a) of
52 subdivision three of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive
53 law but a court released the person pending a preliminary or final revo-
54 cation hearing, the time assessment shall commence upon the issuance of
55 a determination after a final hearing that the person has violated one
56 or more conditions of community supervision in an important respect, and
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1 shall include the time period between execution of the warrant and
2 release of the person pending a preliminary or final revocation hearing.
3 If a [releasee] person is committed to the custody of the sheriff pursu-
4 ant to article five hundred thirty of the criminal procedure law, the
5 time assessment, if any, shall include any time the [releasee] person
6 spent in such custody. If a notice of violation was issued pursuant to
7 subdivision three of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of the executive
8 law, the time assessment shall commence upon the issuance of a determi-
9 nation after a final hearing that the person has violated one or more
10 conditions of supervision. While serving such assessment, the person
11 shall not receive any good behavior allowance pursuant to section eight
12 hundred three of the correction law. Any time spent in custody from the
13 date of delinquency until return to the department of corrections and
14 community supervision shall first be credited to the maximum or aggre-
15 gate maximum term of the sentence or sentences of imprisonment, but only
16 to the extent authorized by subdivision three of section 70.40 of this
17 article. The maximum or aggregate maximum term of the sentence or
18 sentences of imprisonment shall run while the person is serving such
19 time assessment in the custody of the department of corrections and
20 community supervision. Any time spent in custody solely pursuant to such
21 delinquency after completion of the maximum or aggregate maximum term of
22 the sentence or sentences of imprisonment shall be credited to the peri-
23 od of post-release supervision, if any.
24 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
25 sentences imposed before, on and after such date.
