Bill Text: NY A03171 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit times allowances to those inmates having completed eighty percent of their original sentence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A03171 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03171-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3171

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to eligibility for
          limited credit time allowances for inmates  serving  indeterminate  or
          determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1.  Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section  803-b  of  the correction law is amended by adding a new clause
     3  (D) to read as follows:
     4    (D) An inmate shall not be eligible  for  the  credit  defined  herein
     5  before having completed eighty percent of his or her original sentence.
     6    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     7  sentences imposed on and after such effective date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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