Removes the complete authority of the governor to appoint the entire parole board; provides that the parole board shall consist of twenty-four members of whom four shall be appointed by the governor, four members shall be appointed by the chief judge of the court of appeals, four members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly, four members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the senate, four members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the senate, and four members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the assembly.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4622
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 21, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the appointment of
parole board members
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 259-b of the executive law, as
2 amended by section 38-a of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
3 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 1. There shall be in the department a state board of parole which
5 shall possess the powers and duties hereinafter specified. The board
6 shall function independently of the department regarding all of its
7 decision-making functions, as well as any other powers and duties speci-
8 fied in this article, provided, however, that administrative matters of
9 general applicability within the department shall be applicable to the
10 board. Such board shall consist of [not more than nineteen members
11 appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate]
12 twenty-four members of whom four shall be appointed by the governor,
13 four members shall be appointed by the chief judge of the court of
14 appeals, four members shall be appointed by the speaker of the assembly,
15 four members shall be appointed by the temporary president of the
16 senate, four members shall be appointed by the minority leader of the
17 senate, and four members shall be appointed by the minority leader of
18 the assembly. The term of office of each member of such board shall be
19 for six years; provided, however, that any member chosen to fill a
20 vacancy occurring otherwise than by expiration of term shall be
21 appointed for the remainder of the unexpired term of the member whom he
22 or she is to succeed. In the event of the inability to act of any
23 member, the governor may appoint some competent informed person to act
24 in his or her stead during the continuance of such disability.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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