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A00608 Summary:

BILL NOA00608 

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SAME ASSAME AS S06456

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SPONSORSolages

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COSPNSRWeprin, Steck

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §851, Cor L

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Expands prison work release program eligibility and participation.

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BILL NOA00608 

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01/08/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 608

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, WEPRIN, STECK -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to expanding prison work
 release program eligibility and participation

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 851 of the correction law, as
 2 amended by section 228 of chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 2. "Eligible incarcerated individual" means: a person confined in an
 5 institution who is eligible for release on parole or who will become
 6 eligible for release on parole or conditional release within [two] three
 7 years. Provided, however, that a person under sentence for an offense
 8 defined in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision one of section 70.02 of
 9 the penal law, where such offense involved the use or threatened use of
 10 a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument shall not be eligible to partic-
 11 ipate in a work release program until [he or she] such person is eligi-
 12 ble for release on parole or who will be eligible for release on parole
 13 or conditional release within [eighteen] thirty months. Provided,
 14 further, however, that a person under a determinate sentence as a second
 15 felony drug offender for a class B felony offense defined in article two
 16 hundred twenty of the penal law, who was sentenced pursuant to section
 17 70.70 of such law, shall not be eligible to participate in a temporary
 18 release program until the time served under imprisonment for [his or
 19 her] such person's determinate sentence, including any jail time credit-
 20 ed pursuant to the provisions of article seventy of the penal law, shall
 21 be at least eighteen months. In the case of a person serving an indeter-
 22 minate sentence of imprisonment imposed pursuant to the penal law in
 23 effect after September one, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, for the
 24 purposes of this article parole eligibility shall be upon the expiration

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 of the minimum period of imprisonment fixed by the court or where the
 2 court has not fixed any period, after service of the minimum period
 3 fixed by the state board of parole. [If an incarcerated individual is
 4 denied release on parole, such incarcerated individual shall not be
 5 deemed an eligible incarcerated individual until he or she is within two
 6 years of his or her next scheduled appearance before the state parole
 7 board.] In any case where an incarcerated individual is denied release
 8 on parole while participating in a temporary release program, the
 9 department shall review the status of the incarcerated individual to
 10 determine if continued placement in the program is appropriate. No
 11 person convicted of any escape or absconding offense defined in article
 12 two hundred five of the penal law shall be eligible for temporary
 13 release. Further, no person under sentence for aggravated harassment of
 14 an employee by an incarcerated individual as defined in section 240.32
 15 of the penal law for, any homicide offense defined in article one
 16 hundred twenty-five of the penal law, for any sex offense defined in
 17 article one hundred thirty of the penal law, for an act of terrorism as
 18 defined in article four hundred ninety of the penal law, for an offense
 19 involving the sexual performance of a child as defined in article two
 20 hundred sixty-three of the penal law, or for an offens