Relates to parole eligibility for certain incarcerated persons age fifty-five or older if they have served at least fifteen years of their sentence or sentences.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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454
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- 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 parole eligibility for
certain incarcerated persons aged fifty-five or older
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 259-c of the executive law is amended by adding two
2 new subdivisions 18 and 19 to read as follows:
3 18. notwithstanding any other section of law, where a person serving a
4 sentence of incarceration has served at least fifteen years of their
5 sentence or sentences and has reached the age of fifty-five or greater,
6 conduct an interview within sixty days of the date of the person's
7 fifty-fifth birthday or the last day of the fifteenth year of their
8 sentence, whichever is later, pursuant to section two hundred fifty-
9 nine-i of this article to determine whether such person should be
10 released to community supervision. If the board determines that release
11 is appropriate pursuant to the terms of section two hundred
12 fifty-nine-i of this article, then the board shall release the person to
13 community supervision. If release to community supervision is not
14 granted, the person shall be informed in writing within two weeks of
15 such appearance of the factors and reasons for the denial of such
16 release and the board shall specify a date not more than twenty-four
17 months from such determination for reconsideration, and the procedures
18 to be followed upon reconsideration shall be the same. If release to
19 community supervision is granted, the board shall set release conditions
20 and the provisions of this section shall otherwise apply as though the
21 person was released after the completion of such person's minimum
22 sentence. The release assessment and determination required by this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 subdivision shall be in addition to, and may not replace, other release
2 assessments and determinations required by law.
3 19. submit reports, quarterly, to the governor, the temporary presi-
4 dent of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of
5 the senate, the minority leader of the assembly, the chairperson of the
6 senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction, and the chair-
7 person of the assembly committee on correction. Such reports shall
8 include: (i) the number of parole interviews held pursuant to the
9 requirements of subdivision eighteen of this section; (ii) the outcomes
10 of parole interviews held pursuant to the requirements of subdivision
11 eighteen of this section; and (iii) where parole was denied following an
12 interview held pursuant to the requirements of subdivision eighteen of
13 this section, the articulated reasons for each denial, the members of
14 the board assigned in each case and a record of their votes, and the
15 race, sex, facility, and crime of conviction of each denied applicant.
16 Such reports shall not include personally identifiable information about
17 applicants. Reports required by this subdivision shall be published
18 quarterly on a publicly accessible website maintained by the board.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that all persons
20 who meet the eligibility requirements established by section one of this
21 act upon the effective date of this act shall be interviewed within
22 sixty days of such date.
