S6727 • 2025

Relates to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings

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Sponsor: Julia Salazar
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings

Relates to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings Elevates the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings from substantial evidence to a preponderance of the evidence.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings Elevates the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings from substantial evidence to a preponderance of the evidence.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-03-04 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-02-26 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-02-25 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.426
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
2025-06-13 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2025-05-15 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-05-14 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-05-13 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1035
2025-03-20 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Relates to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings
Elevates the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and disciplinary hearings from substantial evidence to a preponderance of the evidence.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6727

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 correction law and the civil practice law and rules,
          in  relation to the evidentiary standard for evidentiary and discipli-
          nary hearings

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Section 137 of the correction law is amending by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. THE EVIDENTIARY STANDARD FOR ALL EVIDENTIARY AND DISCIPLINARY HEAR-
     4  INGS SHALL BE A PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE.
     5    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 7803 of the civil practice law and rules
     6  is amended to read as follows:
     7    4. whether a determination made as a result of a hearing held, and  at
     8  which evidence was taken, pursuant to direction by law is, on the entire
     9  record,  supported by substantial evidence, OR IN THE CASE OF AN EVIDEN-
    10  TIARY OR DISCIPLINARY HEARING HELD PURSUANT TO  THE  CORRECTION  LAW,  A
    11  PREPONDERANCE OF THE EVIDENCE.
    12    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10352-01-5