S 1644: Provides for a right to representation by counsel in any proceeding where an incarcerated individual is under consideration for release on parole and where such incarcerated individual is financially unable to retain counsel.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1644 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 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 executive law, in relation to providing a right to representation by counsel for certain actions of the parole board The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 259-u 2 to read as follows: 3 § 259-u. Right to representation by counsel. In any proceeding where 4 an incarcerated individual is under consideration for release on parole 5 under the provisions of this article and where such incarcerated indi- 6 vidual is financially unable to retain counsel, the criminal court of 7 the city of New York, the county court or district court in the county 8 where the facility holding such incarcerated individual is located or 9 where the proceeding is held, shall assign counsel in accordance with 10 the county or city plan for representation placed in operation pursuant 11 to article eighteen-B of the county law. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of March next succeeding 13 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04834-01-5