NY A10788

Amends Criminal Procedure Law to require courts pronouncing probation or conditional discharge sentences to provide that performance of bona fide work and related travel time shall not be considered violations, even during curfew hours.

Adds new section to Correction Law to prohibit the department from terminating presumptive release, parole, conditional release, or post-release supervision solely because a person engages in bona fide work during curfew times.

Amends Correction Law section 274 to prevent the commission from determining that a conditionally released person has violated conditions based solely on engagement in bona fide work during curfew hours.

Adds new section to Executive Law to prohibit the State Board of Parole from deeming a person in violation or terminating release status solely because the person engaged in bona fide work during curfew times.

Defines bona fide work as work performed as an employee for an employer, as defined in Labor Law section 2, and takes effect immediately.