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A 10797Relates to claims for unjust conviction and imprisonment

Congress · introduced 2026-04-01

Provides that in order to present the claim for unjust conviction and imprisonment, claimant must establish by documentary evidence that: they have been convicted of one or more felonies or misdemeanors against the state and subsequently sentenced to a term of imprisonment, and have served all or any part of the sentence; and they have had the one or more felonies and misdemeanors dismissed with prejudice following serving all or part of the sentence; and their claim is not time-barred.

Latest action: 2026-04-20 IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · assembly REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
  2. · assembly AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO JUDICIARY
  3. · assembly PRINT NUMBER 10797A

Text versions

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Inbound (2)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2026-04-01Larinda Hookssponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2026-04-01Demond Meekscosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Larinda Hooks (, state_lower NY-35)sponsor05
2Demond Meeks (, state_lower NY-137)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2026-04-01 · sponsored by Larinda Hooks (sponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2026-04-01 · cosponsored by Demond Meeks (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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