Assembly Bill A6849

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting legislative staff to visit correctional facilities

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  • 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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2019-A6849 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4566
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §146, Cor L

2019-A6849 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to permitting legislative staff to visit correctional facilities and removes the exception from visiting facilities in which inmates under sentence of death are confined.

2019-A6849 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6849
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 21, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to permitting legisla-
   tive staff to visit correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 146 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 234 of the laws  of  2013,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all
 correctional facilities: The governor and  lieutenant-governor,  commis-
 sioner  of  general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attor-
 ney-general, members of the commission of  correction,  members  of  the
 legislature AND THEIR ACCOMPANYING STAFF and any employee of the depart-
 ment  as  requested  by  the  member  of  the  legislature if the member
 requests to be so accompanied,  provided  that  such  request  does  not
 impact  upon  the  department's ability to supervise, manage and control
 its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of
 appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys  and  every
 clergyman  or  minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the
 religious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the coun-
 ty wherein any such facility is situated. No other person not  otherwise
 authorized  by  law  shall be permitted to enter a correctional facility
 except by authority of the commissioner of correction under  such  regu-
 lations  as  the  commissioner  shall prescribe. [The provisions of this
 section shall not apply to such portion of a  correctional  facility  in
 which inmates under sentence of death are confined.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10795-01-9

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