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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7333
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 5, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  requiring  board  of
          parole  administrative  appeal  findings  and  recommendations  to  be
          published on a website  and  provided  to  correctional  facility  law
          libraries

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4  of  section  259-i  of  the
     2  executive  law,  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the
     3  executive law relating to requiring parole decisions to be published  on
     4  a website, as proposed in legislative bills numbers A. 3053 and S. 3982,
     5  is amended to read as follows:
     6    (c) All board of parole administrative appeal [decisions] findings and
     7  recommendations  shall  be  published  within [sixty] one hundred twenty
     8  days of the determination on a publicly accessible website that includes
     9  a word-searchable database [and cumulative subject matter index of  such
    10  decisions.  Such  subject  matter  index  shall be published annually in
    11  print form and distributed to all correctional facility libraries].  The
    12  department  of corrections and community supervision shall provide elec-
    13  tronic or print copies of  such  findings  and  recommendations  to  all
    14  correctional  facility  law  libraries  on a quarterly basis.  Copies of
    15  such individual [appeal decisions and subject matter index] findings and
    16  recommendations shall also be made available upon written request to the
    17  [board] department of corrections and community supervision.    Informa-
    18  tion  which  would reveal confidential material that may not be released
    19  pursuant to federal or  state  law  shall  be  redacted  from  any  such
    20  website[, decision and index] or findings and recommendations.
    21    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    22  manner as a chapter of the laws of  2017,  amending  the  executive  law
    23  relating  to requiring parole decisions to be published on a website, as
    24  proposed in legislative bills numbers A.3053 and S.3982, takes effect.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06681-03-8