New York A 9546: Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs

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A09546 Summary:

BILL NOA09546 

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Relates to conditional release for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs; provides release twelve months before the completion of the controlling minimum period of imprisonment for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs.

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BILL NOA09546 

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01/14/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9546

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to conditional release
 for eligible offenders who complete post-secondary degrees or programs

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) and clause (A) of subparagraph (ii) of
 2 paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 803-b of the correction law,
 3 subparagraph (i) as added by section 4 of part L of chapter 56 of the
 4 laws of 2009, and clause (A) of subparagraph (ii) as amended by chapter
 5 322 of the laws of 2021, are amended to read as follows:
 6 (i) in the case of an eligible offender who is subject to an indeter-
 7 minate sentence with a maximum term of life imprisonment, such offender
 8 shall be eligible for release six months before the completion of the
 9 controlling minimum period of imprisonment as defined by subdivision one
 10 of section 70.40 of the penal law, except that such offender shall be
 11 eligible for release twelve months before the completion of the
 12 controlling minimum period of imprisonment as defined by subdivi-
 13 sion one of section 70.40 of the penal law for each successive signif-
 14 icant programmatic accomplishment as defined in subparagraph (ii) of
 15 paragraph (c) of this subdivision; or
 16 (A) in the case of an eligible offender who is not subject to an inde-
 17 terminate sentence with a maximum term of life imprisonment, such offen-
 18 der shall be eligible for conditional release six months earlier than as
 19 provided by paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 70.40 of the
 20 penal law, provided that the department determines such offender has
 21 earned the full amount of good time authorized by section eight hundred
 22 three of this article, except that such offender shall be eligible for
 23 release twelve months before the completion of the controlling
 24 minimum period of imprisonment as defined by subdivision one of
 25 section 70.40 of the penal law for each successive significant program-
 26 matic accomplishment as defined in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of
 27 this subdivision; the withholding of any good behavior time credit by
 28 the department shall render an incarcerated individual ineligible for
 29 the credit defined herein;
 30 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 31 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00605-01-5

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