Bill Text: NY S05899 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts "Cesar's law" to require the retaking of parolees who abscond from the supervision of the state board of parole.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05899 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S05899-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5899

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  LANZA, HELMING -- 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 retaking of
          certain persons absconding from parole or other conditional release

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Cesar's law".
     3    § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 3 of section 259-i of the  executive
     4  law,  as  amended by section 38-f-1 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62
     5  of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (i) Where there is reasonable cause  to  believe  that  a  presumptive
     7  releasee,  parolee,  conditional  releasee  or person under post-release
     8  supervision has absconded from supervision the board [may] shall declare
     9  such person to be delinquent and a  warrant  shall  be  issued  for  the
    10  retaking  of  such  person  and  for  such  person's temporary detention
    11  according to the rules of the board, and  the  board  shall  immediately
    12  notify the law enforcement agency having jurisdiction of the locality in
    13  which  such  absconder resides. This paragraph shall not be construed to
    14  deny such person  a  preliminary  revocation  hearing  upon  [his]  such
    15  person's  retaking,  nor  to relieve the department of any obligation it
    16  may have to exercise due diligence to retake the alleged absconder,  nor
    17  to  relieve  the  parolee or releasee of any obligation [he] such person
    18  may have to comply with the conditions of [his] such person's release.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10503-01-5