What's happening
This bill requires the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to cover the costs and responsibility of monitoring ignition interlock devices for parolees.
Why it matters
Shifts financial and administrative responsibility. for monitoring ignition interlock devices from individual parolees to the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, reducing the financial burden on those re-entering society.
May enable more consistent enforcement. of ignition interlock requirements, as state oversight could standardize monitoring practices and ensure compliance, potentially improving public safety outcomes.
Could affect recidivism and rehabilitation. by removing a costly barrier for parolees, which might help them reintegrate more successfully and reduce the risk of driving without a required device due to inability to pay.
Impacts state resource allocation. , as the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision will need additional funding and infrastructure to manage and monitor these devices for all affected parolees statewide.
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State Pays Ignition Device Costs
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Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
History
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1781
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
State Pays Ignition Lock Costs
In Assembly Committee · Correction · Sponsor John T. McDonald III
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STATE OF NEW YORK
193
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE (Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, DeFRANCISCO, GALLIVAN, RITCHIE -- 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 an ignition interlock device
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 15-a of section 259-c of the executive law, as amended by section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
15-a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where a person is serving a sentence for a violation of section 120.03, 120.04, 120.04-a, 125.12, 125.13 or 125.14 of the penal law, or a felony as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section eleven hundred ninety-three of the vehicle and traffic law, if such person is released on parole or conditional release the board shall require as a mandatory condition of such release, that such person install and maintain, in accordance with the provisions of section eleven hundred ninety-eight of the vehicle and traffic law, an ignition interlock device in any motor vehicle owned or operated by such person during the term of such parole or conditional release for such crime. The department of corrections and community supervision shall maintain the responsibility and costs of monitoring any person released on parole with the mandatory requirement of installation of an ignition interlock device on his or her motor vehicle. Provided further, however, the board may not otherwise authorize the operation of a motor vehicle by any person whose license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of the vehicle and traffic law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the executive law, in relation to an ignition interlock device
Purpose
Requires the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to maintain the responsibility and costs of monitoring any person released on parole with the mandatory requirement of an ignition interlock.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends Subdivision 15-a of section 259-c of the Executive law, as amended by Section 38-b of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, to require the Parole Office to maintain the responsibility and costs of monitoring any person released on parole with the mandatory requirement of installation of an ignition interlock device on their motor vehicle.
Section 2 provides for an immediate effective date.
Existing law
Currently, the Office of Parole is charged with the supervision and re-entry of persons released from State Prison who are required to install an ignition interlock device pursuant to the provisions created by Leandra's Law. The county agency designated to monitor these same offenders must also supervise parolees after the completion of their State Prison sentence for a mandatory six month interlock condition.
Justification
The monitoring of parolees by county departments such as probation, district attorney, Sheriffs' offices and County STOP DWI is duplicative because the Office of Parole is already charged with this supervision. Having the Office of Parole as the sole entity responsible for the supervision of these cases allows for more effective monitoring of ignition interlock requirements in conjunction with the individual's other conditions of parole.
Legislative history
2012: Passed Senate (S.5221A / A.7669A) 2013: Passed Senate (S.758 / A.2726) 2014: Passed Senate (S.6765 / A.8449) 2015-2016: Passed Senate (S.3094 / A.5269)
Fiscal implications
This bill will eliminate an unnecessary expense for counties and also property tax payers.
Effective date
Immediately.
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