New York S 6500: Relates to specification of objections to designating petitions, independent nominating petitions, certificates of nomination or ballot access documents

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S06500 Summary:

BILL NOS06500 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCLEARE

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 24-A §§810 - 813, Cor L; amd §70.30, Pen L

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Establishes merit time allowance credits for local correctional facilities for eligible incarcerated individuals.

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03/14/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6500

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 14, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the correction law and the penal law, in relation to
 establishing merit time allowance credits for local correctional
 facilities

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

 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new article 24-A
 2 to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 24-A
 4 MERIT TIME ALLOWANCE CREDITS
 5 FOR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
 6 Section 810. Definitions.
 7 811. Merit time allowance credit accrual and application.
 8 812. Forfeiture of merit time allowance credit.
 9 813. Record keeping.
 10 § 810. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
 11 have the following meanings:
 12 1. "Credit" means a reduction of twenty-four hours in the amount of
 13 time an incarcerated individual must serve in a correctional facility on
 14 the incarcerated individual's sentence upon conviction; and
 15 2. "Eligible incarcerated individual" means an incarcerated individual
 16 in the custody of the sheriff of a local correctional facility who is
 17 serving one or more definite sentences of one year or less or who is
 18 detained pending trial, sentence or other disposition and who partic-
 19 ipates in the merit time allowance credit program established pursuant
 20 to this article.
 21 § 811. Merit time allowance credit accrual and application. 1. Upon
 22 the active participation in an educational, vocational, work, or rehabi-
 23 litative program that has been assigned by the chief administrative

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10940-01-5

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 1 officer, an eligible incarcerated individual shall accrue credits
 2 applied to their sentence in the same manner as jail time credit pursu-
 3 ant to subdivision three of section 70.30 of the penal law. One credit
 4 shall accrue for every four days in which the incarcerated individual
 5 successfully participates in the program.
 6 2. Accrued credits shall, in accordance with this section, be applied
 7 against an eligible incarcerated individual's sentence or, if pre-trial,
 8 against the sentence ultimately imposed, and shall diminish the incar-
 9 cerated individual's period of imprisonment according to the schedule
 10 set forth in subdivision one of this section.
 11 3. If an eligible incarcerated individual accrues credits pursuant to
 12 subdivision one of this section during a period of pre-trial or pre-sen-
 13 tence detention for a felony offense, and is later convicted of and
 14 sentenced to a period of imprisonment in a state correctional facility
 15 for such a felony offense, the credits accrued by the incarcerated indi-
 16 vidual shall be applied by the department as additional jail time credit
 17 pursuant to subdivision three of section 70.30 of the penal law to the
 18 sentence served by the incarcerated individual for such felony offense.
 19 4. All participation by an incarcerated individual in the merit time
 20 allowance credit program is voluntary. Except in administrative
 21 proceedings concerning the incarcerated individual's opportunity to
 22 participate in, or continue to participate in, such a voluntary program
 23 administered by a correctional facility, evidence of an incarcerated
 24 individual's failure to successfully participate in or complete a m