Assembly Bill A5859

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for limited credit time allowances

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Current Bill Status Via S6617 - On Floor Calendar

  • 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-A5859 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6617
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803-b, Cor L

2023-A5859 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for limited credit time allowances for working in the horse handling program for a period of no less than eighteen months and receipt of a certification from the Groom Elite program.

2023-A5859 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5859
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to limited  credit  time
   allowances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subparagraph (xii) of paragraph (c)  of  subdivision  1  of
 section  803-b  of  the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the
 laws of 2021, is amended and a new subparagraph (xiii) is added to  read
 as follows:
   (xii)  receives  a  certificate  from the food production center in an
 assigned position following the completion of no less than eight hundred
 hours of work in such position, and continues to work for an  additional
 eighteen months at the food production center[.]; OR
   (XIII)  SUCCESSFULLY  WORKS IN THE HORSE HANDLING PROGRAM FOR A PERIOD
 OF NO LESS THAN EIGHTEEN MONTHS AND RECEIVES A  CERTIFICATION  FROM  THE
 GROOM ELITE PROGRAM.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10070-01-3

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