State Legislative Session Enters Home Stretch
New York | June 7, 2021
At the time of this writing, there are only four scheduled days left in the state legislative session that is scheduled to conclude on June 10, 2021. That makes this final week of the regular session make it or break it for the many of the issues that New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms has been working on for at least the past six months, and in many cases, multiple years.
New York Now reports that the Democratic Supermajorities have a number of issues under consideration, including:
- The Elder Parole Act, which would give inmates an automatic parole hearing if they are over the age of 55 and have served 15 years of their sentence.
- The Fair and Timely Parole Act, which would require parole boards to give more weight to a person’s rehabilitation record in prison than to the crime that they originally committed.
- The “Clean Slate” legislation, which would seal some felony and misdemeanor conviction records for up to 2 million New Yorkers who have completed their prison sentences.
There are also a few gun control measures that appear to be moving, one would permit gun manufacturers to be sued when guns are used to commit a crime…
(Excerpts from New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms)