Senate Bill S4566

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to permitting legislative staff to visit correctional facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A6849 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-S4566 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6849
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §146, Cor L

2019-S4566 (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-S4566 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4566 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4566
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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  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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