Relates to the education and experience of members of the state board of parole; provides that members can have either a degree and at least five years of experience in several fields or at least ten years of experience in such fields.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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126
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. RYAN -- 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 the education and
experience of members of the state board of parole
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 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 2. Each member of the board shall either (a) have been awarded a
5 degree from an accredited four-year college or university or a graduate
6 degree from such college or university or accredited graduate school and
7 shall have had at least five years of experience in one or more of the
8 fields of criminology, administration of criminal justice, law enforce-
9 ment, sociology, law, social work, corrections, psychology, psychiatry
10 or medicine; or (b) have at least ten years of experience in one or more
11 of the fields of criminology, administration of criminal justice, law
12 enforcement, sociology, law, social work, corrections, psychology,
13 psychiatry or medicine.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00624-01-3
