Senate Bill S2855

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to drug law reform, drug treatment and crime reduction; repealer

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Archive: Last 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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2009-S2855 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6085
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§2, 71, 851, 865 & 867, add §149-a, Cor L; amd §§1.20, 170.15, 170.40, 180.20, 210.40, 220.30, 410.91, 700.05, 160.60 & 450.10, rpld §410.91 sub 4, add §§255.30, 440.46 & 160.65, CP L; amd §§296 & 259-i, add §837-s, Exec L; amd §§211 & 212, Judy L; amd Pen L, generally; amd §1310, CPLR; amd §8, add §§97-j & 97-k, St Fin L

2009-S2855 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to drug law reform, drug treatment and crime reduction; relates further to sentencing proceedings; sentences of parole supervision; combined law enforcement and community strategy to eliminate street-level drug crime

2009-S2855 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2855 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  2855

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens. SCHNEIDERMAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON, MONTGOMERY, DUANE,
  ADAMS, BRESLIN, DIAZ, DILAN, HUNTLEY, KRUEGER, PARKER, PERKINS,  SAMP-
  SON,  SERRANO,  STAVISKY  --  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, in relation to drug abuse treatment
  in state prisons; to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to
  sentencing  proceedings;  to  amend  the executive law, in relation to
  sentences of parole supervision and a  combined  law  enforcement  and
  community  strategy to eliminate street-level drug crime; to amend the
  judiciary law, the penal law, the civil practice law and rules and the
  state finance law, in relation to determinate  sentences  for  certain
  drug  offenses and the creation of new offenses for criminal sale of a
  controlled substance to a  child,  trafficking  through  a  controlled
  substance  organization,  and  criminal  possession  of a weapon while
  selling or attempting to sell a controlled  substance;  to  amend  the
  state  finance  law,  in  relation to establishing the crime reduction
  fund and the school drug abuse prevention fund; and to repeal  certain
  provisions of the criminal procedure law relating thereto

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 17 of section 2 of the correction law, as added
by chapter 338 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
  17. (A) "Alcohol and substance abuse treatment [facility] SERVICES." A
correctional [facility]  PROGRAM  designed  [to  house  medium  security
inmates as defined by department rules and regulations and operated] for
the purpose of providing intensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment
services  TO  INMATES  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT.   Such services shall ensure
comprehensive treatment for alcoholism and substance abuse, PURSUANT  TO
PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, to ALL inmates UNDER CUSTODY OF THE
DEPARTMENT who have been identified by the commissioner or  his  or  her

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09739-04-9
              

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