S 2549: Requires the membership of the state board of parole, and parole hearing officers to be composed of a proportionate share of residents of each county to reflect the state's incarcerated individual population.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2549 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MYRIE -- 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 the composition of the state board of parole and parole hearing officers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 259-b of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 2-a to read as follows: 3 2-a. With respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the 4 effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole shall be 5 so constituted that the proportion of the members residing in any county 6 of the state shall be reasonably equivalent and in the same proportion 7 as the resident county of the incarcerated individual population bears 8 to the total population of the state. 9 § 2. Section 259-d of the executive law is amended by adding a new 10 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 11 3. With respect to members appointed or reappointed on and after the 12 effective date of this subdivision, the state board of parole shall be 13 so constituted that the proportion of the hearing officers residing in 14 any county of the state shall be reasonably equivalent and in the same 15 proportion as the resident county of the incarcerated individual popu- 16 lation bears to the total population of the state. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 18 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06786-01-5