New York A 5781: Creates the New York state community service loan board; appropriation

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A05781 Summary:

BILL NOA05781 

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SAME ASSAME AS S00128

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SPONSORChludzinski

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COSPNSRSempolinski, Molitor, Bailey

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §440.50, CP L; amd §259-i, Exec L

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Requires the notice to crime victims of case disposition to inform the victim of the right to attend interviews between the board of parole and the incarcerated individual in cases where the final disposition includes a felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of the penal law that results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision for an indeterminate sentence; requires the board of parole to review victim impact statements, failure to review such statements shall make a hearing by the board of parole invalid.

Go to top A05781 Actions:

BILL NOA05781 

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02/20/2025referred to codes

05/13/2025held for consideration in codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

Go to topA05781 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/13/2025AYE/NAY:16/6 Action: Held for Consideration DinowitzAyeMorinelloNay

CookAyeReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinNay

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoNay

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAye

CruzAye

EpsteinAye

BoresAye

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

Go to topA05781 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA05781 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5781

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CHLUDZINSKI -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring the
 notice to crime victims of case disposition to inform the victim of
 the right to attend interviews between the board of parole and the
 incarcerated individual; and to amend the executive law, in relation
 to requiring the board of parole to review victim impact statements

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 440.50 of the criminal procedure
 2 law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 1. (a) Upon the request of a victim of a crime, or in any event in all
 5 cases in which the final disposition includes a conviction of a violent
 6 felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law, a felony
 7 defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law, or a felony
 8 defined in article one hundred thirty of such law, the district attorney
 9 shall, within sixty days of the final disposition of the case, inform
 10 the victim by letter of such final disposition. If such final disposi-
 11 tion results in the commitment of the defendant to the custody of the
 12 department of corrections and community supervision for an indeterminate
 13 sentence, the notice provided to the crime victim shall also inform the
 14 victim of [his or her] the right to submit a written, audiotaped, tele-
 15 phonic, or [videotaped] video recorded victim impact statement to the
 16 department of corrections and community supervision or to meet
 17 personally with a member of the state board of parole at a time and
 18 place separate from the personal interview between a member or members
 19 of the board and the incarcerated individual and make such a statement,
 20 subject to procedures and limitations contained in rules of the board,
 21 both pursuant to subdivision two of section two hundred fifty-nine-i of
 22 the executive law. A copy of such [letter] statement shall be provided

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00767-01-5

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 1 to the board of parole and all presiding commissioners for such hearing.
 2 The right of the victim under this subdivision to submit a [written]
 3 victim impact statement in any format or to meet personally with a
 4 member of the state board of parole applies to each personal interview
 5 between a member or members of the board and the incarcerated individ-
 6 ual.
 7 (b) In all cases in which the final disposition includes a felony
 8 defined in article o