Bill Text: NY S02221 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the state board of parole members; requires the board have at least nineteen members.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02221 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02221-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2221

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, RIVERA -- 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  state  board  of
          parole 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]  at  least  nineteen
    11  members  appointed  by  the  governor with the advice and consent of the
    12  senate. The term of office of each member of such board shall be for six
    13  years; provided, however, that any  member  chosen  to  fill  a  vacancy
    14  occurring  otherwise  than  by expiration of term shall be appointed for
    15  the remainder of the unexpired term of the member whom he or she  is  to
    16  succeed.  In the event of the inability to act of any member, the gover-
    17  nor may appoint some competent informed person to  act  in  his  or  her
    18  stead during the continuance of such disability.
    19    §  2.  This  act shall take effect one year after the date on which it
    20  shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05973-01-1