STATE OF NEW YORK
________________________________________________________________________
7972
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. TEDISCO -- 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 allowing victim impact
statements to be submitted at parole revocation hearings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (x) of paragraph (f) of subdivision
2 3 of section 259-i of the executive law, as amended by chapter 427 of
3 the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) (A) Both the alleged violator and an attorney who has filed a
5 notice of appearance on [his or her] the alleged violator's behalf in
6 accordance with the rules of the board of parole shall be given written
7 notice of the date, place and time of the hearing pursuant to subpara-
8 graph (ix) of paragraph (c) of this subdivision.
9 (B) Upon the request of a victim of a crime for which the alleged
10 violator is on parole, the department shall inform the victim by letter
11 of the date, place and time of the hearing. As used in this paragraph,
12 "victim" has the meaning specified in section 440.50 of the criminal
13 procedure law.
14 (x) (A) If the presiding officer is satisfied that there is clear and
15 convincing evidence that the alleged violator violated one or more
16 conditions of release in an important respect, [he or she] the presiding
17 officer shall so find. For each sustained technical violation the
18 presiding officer shall direct that no earned time credits shall be
19 awarded for the thirty day period commencing from the date of the
20 sustained violation. For any absconding violation found, the presiding
21 officer shall direct that no earned time credits shall be awarded for
22 the entire time period during which a releasee was found to have
23 absconded from supervision.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13072-01-5
S. 7972 2
1 (B) If the presiding officer finds that the alleged violator violated
2 one or more conditions of release in an important respect, the presiding
3 officer shall inform the victim of a crime for which the alleged viola-
4 tor is on parole of the victim's right to submit a written, audiotaped,
5 or videotaped victim impact statement to the presiding officer or to
6 meet personally with the presiding officer and make such a statement.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
