Senate Bill S7001

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes an optional retirement stipend for certain incarcerated individuals over sixty-two years of age

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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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2021-S7001 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8499
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §187, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S4307, A397
2025-2026: A45

2021-S7001 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes an optional retirement stipend of thirty dollars per month for incarcerated individuals over age sixty-two who have completed at least five years of their sentence.

2021-S7001 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7001 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7001
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 21, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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 correction law, in relation to establishing an  optional
   retirement stipend for certain incarcerated individuals over sixty-two
   years of age

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 187 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  RETIREMENT. A. ANY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL OVER SIXTY-TWO YEARS OF
 AGE WHO HAS SERVED AT LEAST FIVE YEARS OF HIS OR HER SENTENCE SHALL HAVE
 THE OPTION TO STOP PARTICIPATING IN PROGRAMS AND WORK ASSIGNMENTS  UNDER
 THIS  ARTICLE  AND  SHALL RECEIVE A MONTHLY RETIREMENT STIPEND OF THIRTY
 DOLLARS.
   B. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL INFORM EACH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS
 ELIGIBLE  FOR  RETIREMENT  UNDER PARAGRAPH A OF THIS SUBDIVISION OF SUCH
 INDIVIDUAL'S OPTION TO RETIRE.
   C. IF AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL DECIDES TO CONTINUE WORKING  AND  REFUSES
 THE RETIREMENT STIPEND, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SO NOTE IN WRITING.
   D.  ANY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO HAS REFUSED THE RETIREMENT BENEFIT
 UNDER PARAGRAPH C OF THIS SUBDIVISION MAY  ELECT  TO  STOP  WORKING  AND
 RECEIVE  SUCH BENEFIT UPON THIRTY DAYS WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE COMMISSION-
 ER.
   E. NOTHING  IN  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  EXCUSE  AN  INDIVIDUAL  FROM
 COMPLETING  ANY  PROGRAM REQUIRED FOR PAROLE RELEASE, PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
 THAT AN ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS WAITING FOR  AN  OPENING  IN  SUCH  A
 PROGRAM MAY STOP WORKING UNTIL SUCH PROGRAM BECOMES AVAILABLE.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
 rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
 effective date are authorized to be made on or before such date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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