New York S 5793: Relates to service retirement benefits for uniformed sanitation members of the New York city employees' retirement system

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S05793 Summary:

BILL NOS05793 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSEPULVEDA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §205, Cor L; rpld & add §257-c, amd §259-j, Exec L

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Relates to probation administrative fees; prohibits certain fees associated with probation; provides for the termination and discharge of certain sentences.

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BILL NOS05793 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5793

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction

 AN ACT to repeal section 257-c of the executive law, relating to
 probation administrative fees; to amend the executive law, in relation
 to prohibiting certain fees associated with probation; and to amend
 the correction law and the executive law, in relation to termination
 and discharge of certain sentences

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

 1 Section 1. Section 257-c of the executive law is REPEALED.
 2 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 257-c to
 3 read as follows:
 4 § 257-c. Prohibition on fees associated with probation. Notwithstand-
 5 ing any other provision of law, no county or city may adopt a local law
 6 requiring individuals currently serving or who shall be sentenced to a
 7 period of probation upon conviction of any crime to pay any fee, includ-
 8 ing but not limited to an administrative fee, supervision fee, monitor-
 9 ing fee, testing fee, or screening fee, to the local probation depart-
 10 ment with the responsibility of supervising the probationer. Nothing in
 11 this section shall be construed to affect the collection of restitution
 12 payments and associated surcharges pursuant to sections 65.10 and 60.27
 13 of the penal law and subdivision 8 of section 420.10 of the criminal
 14 procedure law.
 15 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 205 of the correction law, as amended by
 16 chapter 491 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 17 2. (a) A merit termination granted by the department under this
 18 section shall constitute a termination of the sentence with respect to
 19 which it was granted. No such merit termination shall be granted unless
 20 the department is satisfied that termination of sentence from presump-
 21 tive release, parole, conditional release or post-release supervision is

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10399-01-5

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 1 in the best interest of society[, and that the parolee or releasee,
 2 otherwise financially able to comply with an order of restitution and
 3 the payment of any mandatory surcharge previously imposed by a court of
 4 competent jurisdiction, has made a good faith effort to comply there-
 5 with].
 6 (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person granted merit
 7 termination pursuant to this section shall be provided a certificate of
 8 relief from disabilities pursuant to section seven hundred three of this
 9 chapter or a certificate of good conduct under section seven hundred
 10 three-b of this chapter, as applicable.
 11 § 4. Subdivisions 1 and 3 of section 259-j of the executive law, as
 12 amended by section 38-g of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
 13 of 2011, are amended to read as follows:
 14 1. Except where a determinate sentence was imposed for a felony other
 15 than a felony defined in article two hundred twenty or article two
 16 hundred twenty-one of the penal law, if the board of parole is satisfied
 17 that an absolute discharge from presumptive release, parole, conditional
 18 release or release to a period of post-release supervision is in the
 19 best interests of society, the board may grant such a discharge prior to
 20 the expiration of the full term or maximum term to any per