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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8484
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on 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 his or her presumptive release, parole, conditional release or
8 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 he or she be committed to the custody of
17 the commissioner.
18 2. The provisions of subdivision one of this section shall not apply
19 if the appropriate court grants an extension authorizing the detainee to
20 remain in the local correctional facility for up to twenty days per
21 extension.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
23 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
24 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
25 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date is
26 authorized to be made on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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