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Home/Bills/A 4426New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 4426: Relates to limiting eligibility for limited credit time allowances to those incarcerated individuals having completed eighty percent of their original sentence.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 9, 2026

What A 4426 does, verified January 9, 2026

The proposed law aims to restrict the eligibility for limited credit time allowances for incarcerated individuals serving indeterminate or determinate sentences imposed for specific offenses. An incarcerated individual is not eligible for this allowance before completing 80% of their original sentence. The law will take effect immediately and apply to all sentences imposed on or after the effective date.

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Last action: referred to correction (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to correction
Feb. 04, 2025referred to correction
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 183 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4426 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to eligibility for limited credit time allowances for incarcerated individuals serving indeterminate or determinate sentences imposed for specified offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 803-b of the correction law is amended by adding a new clause 3 (D) to read as follows: 4 (D) An incarcerated individual shall not be eligible for the credit 5 defined herein before having completed eighty percent of their original 6 sentence. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 8 sentences imposed on and after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06738-01-5 
Text of A 4426 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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