Senate Bill S8480

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to discipline certain employees for acts of serious misconduct

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S8480 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §12, amd §112, Cor L; amd §§50 & 61, Civ Serv L

2023-S8480 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to discipline certain employees for acts of serious misconduct; defines serious misconduct; establishes procedures for such disciplinary action; prohibits employees who have been removed for serious misconduct from being placed on the eligible list after such removal.

2023-S8480 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S8480 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8480
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 5, 2024
                                ___________
 
 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 service law, in
   relation to discipline of certain persons for serious misconduct
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 12 to
 read as follows:
   § 12. DISCIPLINE OF CERTAIN SERIOUS MISCONDUCT. 1. DEFINITION. FOR THE
 PURPOSES  OF  THIS SECTION, THE TERM "SERIOUS MISCONDUCT" SHALL MEAN: AN
 ACT OF EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE; AN ACT OF FALSE REPORTING  REGARDING  ONE
 OR MORE ACTS OF EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE; AN INTENTIONAL FAILURE TO REPORT
 AN ACT OF EXCESSIVE USE OF FORCE; THE INTRODUCTION OF A CELLULAR DEVICE,
 CONTROLLED  SUBSTANCE,  MARIHUANA  OR OTHER SIGNIFICANTLY INCAPACITATING
 SUBSTANCE TO AN INSTITUTION OF THE DEPARTMENT; OR AN INAPPROPRIATE SEXU-
 AL RELATIONSHIP OR CONTACT WITH AN INCARCERATED PERSON OR  PERSON  UNDER
 COMMUNITY SUPERVISION.
   2.  ACTS  OF  MISCONDUCT.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,
 WHEN AN EMPLOYEE IS ALLEGED TO HAVE COMMITTED AN ACT OF SERIOUS  MISCON-
 DUCT  THEN THE DISCIPLINARY PROCESS THAT MAY BE APPLIED TO SUCH EMPLOYEE
 SHALL NOT BE GOVERNED BY  ANY  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING  AGREEMENT  OR  BY
 SECTION  SEVENTY-FIVE  OF THE CIVIL SERVICE LAW BUT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY
 THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   3. DISCIPLINARY ACTION. A PERSON HOLDING A POSITION  AS  DESCRIBED  IN
 PARAGRAPH  (A), (B) OR (C) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT BE REMOVED FROM
 THEIR POSITION  OR  OTHERWISE  SUBJECTED  TO  ANY  DISCIPLINARY  PENALTY
 AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PERSON
 MAY  BE REMOVED OR OTHERWISE SUBJECTED TO A DISCIPLINARY PENALTY AUTHOR-
 IZED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION FOR SERIOUS  MISCONDUCT  AFTER  A  HEARING
 UPON  STATED  CHARGES  PURSUANT  TO THIS SECTION. THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL
 APPLY TO:
   (A) A PERSON HOLDING  A  POSITION  BY  PERMANENT  APPOINTMENT  IN  THE
 COMPETITIVE CLASS OF THE CLASSIFIED CIVIL SERVICE; OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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