New York S 5586: Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board

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S05586 Summary:

BILL NOS05586 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSRHELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, STEC, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §440.50, CP L; amd §259-i, Exec L

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Provides for family members of a crime victim and interested parties to make statements to members of the parole board; provides that such oral statement shall be made to the members of the state board of parole who will determine whether the defendant is released.

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BILL NOS05586 

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02/25/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5586

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 25, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. LANZA, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, OBERACKER, PALUMBO,
 STEC, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
 committed to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the executive law, in
 relation to requiring that all family members of a crime victim and
 all interested parties who want to give a victim impact statement to
 parole board members be allowed to do so

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

 1 Section 1. Section 440.50 of the criminal procedure law, as added by
 2 chapter 496 of the laws of 1978, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 322
 3 of the laws of 2021, and subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 14 of the
 4 laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
 5 § 440.50 Notice to crime victims, family members of a crime victim or an
 6 interested party of case disposition.
 7 1. Upon the request of a victim of a crime, a family member of a crime
 8 victim or an interested party, or in any event in all cases in which the
 9 final disposition includes a conviction of a violent felony offense as
 10 defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, a felony defined in article
 11 one hundred twenty-five of such law, or a felony defined in article one
 12 hundred thirty of such law, the district attorney shall, within sixty
 13 days of the final disposition of the case, inform the victim or a family
 14 member of a crime victim or an interested party who requests to be
 15 informed by letter of such final disposition. If such final disposition
 16 results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of the depart-
 17 ment of corrections and community supervision for an indeterminate
 18 sentence, the notice provided to the crime victim, a family member of a
 19 crime victim or interested party shall also inform the victim of [his or
 20 her] their right to submit a written, audiotaped, or videotaped victim
 21 impact statement to the department of corrections and community super-
 22 vision or to meet personally with [a member] members of the state board

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09689-01-5

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 1 of parole who will determine whether the defendant is released at a time
 2 and place separate from the personal interview between a member or
 3 members of the board and the incarcerated individual and make such a
 4 statement, subject to procedures and limitations contained in rules of
 5 the board, both pursuant to subdivision two of section two hundred
 6 fifty-nine-i of the executive law. A copy of such letter shall be
 7 provided to the board of parole. The right of the victim, a family
 8 member of a crime victim or an interested party under this subdivision
 9 to submit a written victim impact statement or to meet personally with
 10 [a member] members of the state board of parole applies to each personal
 11 interview between a member or members of the board and the incarcerated
 12 individual.
 13 2. As used in this section, "victim" means any person alleged or
 14 found, upon the record, to have sustained physical or financial injury
 15 to person or property as a direct result of the crime charged or a
 16 person alleged or found to have sustained, upon the record, an offense
 17 under article one hundred thirty of