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; establishes such provisions do not apply for NYC.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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830
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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 correction law, in relation to parole violators
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 23-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 23-a. Transfer of parole violators. 1. If any person presumptively
4 released, paroled, conditionally released, released to post-release
5 supervision, or received under the uniform act for out-of-state parolee
6 supervision shall have been arrested for violating one or more condi-
7 tions of such person's presumptive release, parole, conditional release
8 or post-release supervision, such person, after ten business days in any
9 local correctional facility, shall either be:
10 a. transferred to a state correctional facility, with the costs and
11 responsibilities associated with such transfer borne by the department
12 pursuant to section six hundred two of this chapter; or
13 b. kept in such local correctional facility, with the county's costs
14 of such temporary detainment reimbursed by the department where such
15 person has been convicted of a parole violation and a sentence has been
16 pronounced which requires that such person be committed to the custody
17 of the commissioner.
18 2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
19 in any city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, or
20 if the appropriate court grants an extension authorizing the detainee to
21 remain in the local correctional facility for up to twenty days per
22 extension.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
24 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
25 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
26 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
27 completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02881-01-5
