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NY S03825

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/30/2025

Primary Sponsor

Luis Sepulveda

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Establishes that all felony offenders, regardless of the crime or sentence imposed, become eligible for parole after serving no more than 25 years of their sentence

  • Eliminates life imprisonment without parole, replacing it with life imprisonment with eligibility for parole after 25 years for crimes including first-degree murder, aggravated murder, terrorism involving Class A-I felonies, and criminal possession or use of chemical or biological weapons

  • Prohibits courts from imposing consecutive prison terms that exceed 25 years total

  • Repeals the existing statutory provision for life imprisonment without parole (subdivision 2-a of section 70.20 of the penal law)

  • Takes effect 90 days after becoming law

Legislative Description

Requires that all felony offenders shall be eligible for parole after serving no more than twenty-five years of their sentence; eliminates the possibility of serving consecutive terms of imprisonment which exceed a twenty-five year sentence.

Last Action

REFERRED TO CODES

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Codes1/30/2025

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