NY State Senate Bill 2023-S207

Senate Bill S207

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities

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2023-S207 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A2461
Current Committee:: Senate Social Services
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§158 & 209, Soc Serv L; amd §112, add §§500-q & 71-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S8689, A10763
2021-2022: S6493, S8064, A7340

2023-S207 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for programs, supports and services for individuals being released from state and local correctional facilities to ensure that such persons receive mental health and substance use disorder services, educational needs and job readiness services and housing assistance.

2023-S207 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S207

SPONSOR: CLEARE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the social services law and the correction law, in
relation to programs, supports and services for individuals being
released from state and local correctional facilities

 
PURPOSE OF BILL:

his bill would ensure individuals being released from state and local
correctional facilities receive the appropriate supports and services
needed to reintegrate into the community prior to and upon release.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill would ensure that local social services
districts accept safety net assistance applications from an individual
being released from a state or local correctional facility six months
prior to such individual's earliest expected release date.

Section two of the bill would ensure that incarcerated individuals in a
state or local correctional facility, with the intention of residing in
the state of New York, shall be eligible to apply for state supplemental
payments at least six months prior to their earliest expected release
date.

Section three of the bill would ensure that individuals released on
community supervision are eligible to apply for safety net assistance,
supplemental security income and state supplemental payments prior to
their earliest expected release date and that the department shall
provide assistance in completing and filing such applications or
contract with not-for- profit providers to do so.

Section four of the bill would establish reentry services including
ensuring each incarcerated individual is eligible to apply for safety
net assistance, supplemental security income and state supplemental
payments prior to their earliest expected release date.

Section five would establish the reintegration pilot program to.help
ensure incarcerated individuals within the correctional facilities
receive the supports and services necessary to meaningfully prepare for
their release while still incarcerated, assist individuals to reinte-
grate into the community upon release, and reduce recidivism.

Section six would require the provision of identification cards to
incarcerated persons upon release.

Section seven would establish the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Nationally, formerly incarcerated people are ten times more likely to be
homeless than the general public. (source: Couloute, Lucius.  "Nowhere
to Go: Homelessness among Formerly Incarcerated People."  Prison Policy
Initiative, Aug. 2018, www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/ housing.html)
According to 2014 numbers, 9,300 formerly incarcerated individuals were
released from state prison to New York City, few of whom were referred
to, or directly connected to, supportive services as part of their
release plan. In fact, 23% of the time, they went straight to homeless
shelters that have well-documented poor conditions, including crime and
drug use.(source:
https://www.nyl.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2018/02/27/ nyl-investiga-
tion- moreinmates-released-upstate- prisons-going-into-nycsheltersystem)

This problem has only been exacerbated over the last few years. In 2017,
approximately 25,000 were released from New York State prisons; upon
release, 54% of these individuals were heading straight to shel-
ters.(source: Chappell, Dale. "New York's Prison-to-Shelter Pipeline Is
Poor Option for Parolees." Prison Legal News, Nov. 2018,
wwwprisonlegalnews.org/news/2018/nov/6/new-yorks-prison-shelter- pipe-
line-poor-option-parolees/). This has been dubbed the "prisonto-shelter
pipeline."

The funneling of recently-released individuals into shelters without the
necessary resources, or without action plans for how to move from a
shelter into more stabilized living and housing, creates a vicious
cycle. It is one in which formerly incarcerated people are bounced among
a maze of shelters and often thrust back out onto the street in the
morning without any direction. Shelters are no longer doing what they
their name implies. Under these shelter conditions, these individuals
are much more likely to recidivate, not giving them the chance to break
the cycle of incarceration, while incurring additional governmental
costs.

The current prison-to-shelter pipeline creates a system that is unsafe,
costly, and detrimental to good public policy. This legislation is crit-
ical in providing a roadmap, as well as the necessary tools to fix a
fundamentally broken system, and the vicious prison-shelter-prison cycle
which is detrimental to all New Yorkers.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: A10763/S8689

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it
shall have become a law and shall expire and be deemed repealed six
years after such effective date.

2023-S207 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    207
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. CLEARE, BRISPORT -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services  law  and  the  correction  law,  in
   relation  to  programs,  supports  and  services for individuals being
   released from state and local correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 158 of the social services law, as
 amended  by  section  1  of part U of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   4. (A) Social services officials shall determine eligibility for safe-
 ty net assistance within thirty days of  receiving  an  application  for
 safety  net assistance. Such officials shall notify applicants of safety
 net assistance about the availability of assistance  to  meet  emergency
 circumstances or to prevent eviction.
   (B)  WHEN  A  LOCAL  SOCIAL  SERVICES  DISTRICT  IS  IDENTIFIED AS THE
 DISTRICT OF RESIDENCE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL BEING RELEASED FROM A  STATE  OR
 LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY, SUCH DISTRICT SHALL ACCEPT AN APPLICATION
 FOR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE SIX MONTHS PRIOR TO SUCH INDIVIDUAL'S EARLIEST
 EXPECTED RELEASE DATE.   IN THE EVENT  THE  INDIVIDUAL  IS  NOT  GRANTED
 PAROLE,  HIS  OR  HER  APPLICATION  WILL  BE PLACED ON HOLD STATUS TO BE
 RE-ACTIVATED AND GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL  IS  GRANTED
 PAROLE  AND AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS KNOWN. THIS SPECIAL STATUS SHALL
 BE DEFINED BY PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION  BY  THE  RESPECTIVE
 DISTRICT  OFFICE  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS OF RECEIVING THE OFFICIAL RELEASE
 DATE.
   § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  1  of  section
 209 of the social services law, as amended by chapter 669 of the laws of
 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01195-01-3

 S. 207                              2
 
   (iv)  is a resident of the state and is either a citizen of the United
 States or is not a noncitizen who is or would be ineligible for  federal
 supplemental  security  income  benefits  solely by reason of noncitizen
 status. PROVIDED HOWEVER, AN INDIVIDUAL INCARCERATED IN A STATE OR LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY,  WITH  THE INTENTION OF RESIDING IN THE STATE OF
 NEW YORK UPON THEIR RELEASE,  SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE  TO  APPLY  FOR  STATE
 SUPPLEMENTAL  PAYMENTS  AT  LEAST  SIX  MONTHS  PRIOR  TO THEIR EARLIEST
 EXPECTED RELEASE DATE.   IN THE EVENT  THE  INDIVIDUAL  IS  NOT  GRANTED
 PAROLE,  HIS  OR  HER  APPLICATION  WILL  BE PLACED ON HOLD STATUS TO BE
 RE-ACTIVATED AND GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL  IS  GRANTED
 PAROLE  AND  AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS KNOWN. THIS SPECIAL STATUS WILL
 BE DEFINED BY PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION  BY  THE  RESPECTIVE
 DISTRICT  OFFICE  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS OF RECEIVING THE OFFICIAL RELEASE
 DATE.
   § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 112 of the correction law, as amended by
 chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   2. The commissioner shall have the management and control  of  persons
 released  on  community  supervision and of all matters relating to such
 persons' effective reentry into the community, as well as all  contracts
 and  fiscal  concerns thereof. The commissioner shall have the power and
 it shall be his or her duty to inquire into all matters  connected  with
 said  community  supervision. The commissioner shall make such rules and
 regulations, not in conflict with the statutes of this  state,  for  the
 governance  of  the  officers  and  other  employees  of  the department
 assigned to said community supervision, and in regard to the  duties  to
 be  performed  by  them,  as he or she deems proper and shall cause such
 rules and regulations to be  furnished  to  each  employee  assigned  to
 perform  community  supervision. The commissioner shall also prescribe a
 system of accounts and records to be kept, which shall be  uniform.  The
 commissioner  shall  also  make  rules  and  regulations for a record of
 photographs and other means of identifying each incarcerated  individual
 released  to community supervision. The commissioner shall appoint offi-
 cers and other employees of the department who are assigned  to  perform
 community  supervision. EACH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WILL BE ELIGIBLE TO
 APPLY FOR SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE, SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME AND  STATE
 SUPPLEMENTAL  PAYMENTS  PRIOR TO THEIR EARLIEST EXPECTED RELEASE DATE IN
 ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES
 LAW,  42  USC § 1383 AND SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES
 LAW, RESPECTIVELY. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING
 AND FILING  SUCH  APPLICATIONS  AND  MAY  CONTRACT  WITH  NOT-FOR-PROFIT
 PROVIDERS  WITH  EXPERIENCE ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS DURING THE APPLICATION
 AND APPEALS PROCESSES OF SUCH BENEFITS TO PROVIDE INCARCERATED  INDIVID-
 UALS WITH ASSISTANCE COMPLETING APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH BENEFITS.
   §  4.  The  correction law is amended by adding a new section 500-q to
 read as follows:
   § 500-Q. RE-ENTRY  SERVICES.  EACH  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  WILL  BE
 ELIGIBLE TO APPLY FOR RE-ENTRY SERVICES, WHICH MUST INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT
 LIMITED TO SAFETY NET ASSISTANCE, SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME AND STATE
 SUPPLEMENTAL  PAYMENTS  PRIOR TO THEIR EARLIEST EXPECTED RELEASE DATE IN
 ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE  SOCIAL  SERVICES
 LAW,  42  USC § 1383 AND SECTION TWO HUNDRED NINE OF THE SOCIAL SERVICES
 LAW, RESPECTIVELY. THE  OFFENDER  REHABILITATION  COORDINATOR  OR  OTHER
 PERSON  IN  CHARGE OF RE-ENTRY SERVICES AT A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
 WILL PROVIDE ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING AND FILING SUCH  APPLICATIONS  AND
 MAY  CONTRACT  WITH  NOT-FOR-PROFIT  PROVIDERS WITH EXPERIENCE ASSISTING
 INDIVIDUALS DURING THE APPLICATION AND APPEALS PROCESSES FOR SUCH  BENE-
 S. 207                              3
 
 FITS  TO  PROVIDE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WITH ASSISTANCE IN COMPLETING
 APPLICATIONS FOR SUCH BENEFITS.   EACH  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  WILL  BE
 REQUIRED TO REPORT OUT TO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW YORK
 STATE LEGISLATURE ON HOW THEY ARE PROVIDING SUCH RE-ENTRY SERVICES. SUCH
 REPORTING  MUST  INCLUDE METRICS ON HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE SERVED AND WHAT
 SERVICES WERE RECEIVED.
   § 5. The correction law is amended by adding a  new  section  71-b  to
 read as follows:
   §  71-B.  REINTEGRATION  PILOT  PROGRAM. 1. THE DEPARTMENT, IN COLLAB-
 ORATION WITH THE OFFICE OF  TEMPORARY  AND  DISABILITY  ASSISTANCE,  THE
 OFFICE  OF  MENTAL  HEALTH  AND  THE  OFFICE  OF  ADDICTION SERVICES AND
 SUPPORTS SHALL ESTABLISH AND CONDUCT A  FIVE  YEAR  REINTEGRATION  PILOT
 PROGRAM  TO HELP ENSURE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITIES RECEIVE THE SUPPORTS AND SERVICES NECESSARY  TO  MEANINGFULLY
 PREPARE  FOR  THEIR RELEASE WHILE STILL INCARCERATED, ASSIST INDIVIDUALS
 TO REINTEGRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY UPON RELEASE  AND  REDUCE  RECIDIVISM.
 SUCH  PILOT PROGRAM SHALL BE CONDUCTED IN THREE CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES,
 ONE FEMALE AND TWO MALE FACILITIES, SELECTED BY THE  DEPARTMENT,  TAKING
 INTO  CONSIDERATION ADEQUATE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE STATE AS
 WELL AS AVAILABILITY  OF  SUFFICIENT  LINKS  TO  SUPPORTS  AND  SERVICES
 REQUIRED  BY  THIS  SECTION.   FOR PURPOSES OF THIS PILOT PROGRAM, THERE
 SHALL BE AT LEAST ONE HUNDRED INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WHO ON  A  VOLUN-
 TARY  BASIS REQUEST PLACEMENT IN THE PILOT PROGRAM UP TO ONE YEAR BEFORE
 THEIR EARLIEST EXPECTED RELEASE DATE. IN THE EVENT THE INDIVIDUAL IS NOT
 GRANTED PAROLE, HIS OR HER APPLICATION WILL BE PLACED ON HOLD STATUS  TO
 BE RE-ACTIVATED AND GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL IS GRANT-
 ED  PAROLE  AND  AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS KNOWN.  THIS SPECIAL STATUS
 WILL BE DEFINED BY PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION BY THE  RESPEC-
 TIVE  DISTRICT  OFFICE  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  RECEIVING THE OFFICIAL
 RELEASE DATE.  UPON ADMISSION TO THE PROGRAM, EACH INCARCERATED INDIVID-
 UAL SHALL RECEIVE AN IN-DEPTH  SCREENING  AND  ASSESSMENT  TO  DETERMINE
 THEIR  SPECIFIC  NEEDS  AS  RELATING  TO,  INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
 MENTAL HEALTH AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER SERVICES, EDUCATIONAL NEEDS AND
 JOB READINESS. IN ADDITION TO  AN  IN-DEPTH  SCREENING  AND  ASSESSMENT,
 PARTICIPANTS IN THE PILOT PROGRAM SHALL ALSO BE LINKED WITH NOT-FOR-PRO-
 FIT  ORGANIZATIONS  AND  PEER TO PEER ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES TO ASSIST
 WITH THE INDIVIDUAL'S REINTEGRATION PLANNING. THIS SHALL OCCUR  NO  LESS
 THAN  SIX  MONTHS PRIOR TO THEIR EXPECTED RELEASE DATE AND SHALL CONSIST
 OF, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,  ASSISTANCE  APPLYING  FOR  PUBLIC  BENEFITS,
 REFERRALS  AND  LINKS  TO  MENTAL  HEALTH  AND/OR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
 SERVICE PROVIDERS IF APPLICABLE, CONNECTIONS TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
 AS WELL AS JOB TRAINING  PROGRAMS  IF  APPROPRIATE,  ASSISTANCE  FINDING
 AVAILABLE STABLE HOUSING OPTIONS TO BE AVAILABLE UPON RELEASE AND GENER-
 AL  SUPPORTS  AND SERVICES THAT MAY BE HELPFUL FOR AN INDIVIDUAL REINTE-
 GRATING BACK INTO THE COMMUNITY.   IN THE EVENT THE  INDIVIDUAL  IS  NOT
 GRANTED  PAROLE, HIS OR HER APPLICATION WILL BE PLACED ON HOLD STATUS TO
 BE RE-ACTIVATED AND GIVEN A PRIORITY RANK ONCE SUCH INDIVIDUAL IS GRANT-
 ED PAROLE AND AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE IS  KNOWN.  THIS  SPECIAL  STATUS
 WILL  BE DEFINED BY PROCESS COMPLETION OF THE APPLICATION BY THE RESPEC-
 TIVE DISTRICT OFFICE  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  RECEIVING  THE  OFFICIAL
 RELEASE DATE.
   2.  UPON  RELEASE  FROM  THE  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY, INDIVIDUALS WILL
 CONTINUE TO RECEIVE SUPPORTS AND SERVICES, AS NEEDED, FOR AN  ADDITIONAL
 SIX MONTHS, TO ENSURE THE INDIVIDUAL'S SUCCESSFUL REINTEGRATION INTO THE
 COMMUNITY.  SUCH SERVICES SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CONNECT-
 ING INDIVIDUALS TO HEALTH AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES,  AS  APPROPRI-
 S. 207                              4
 
 ATE,  ASSISTANCE  ENSURING  COMPLIANCE WITH ANY PAROLE OR COURT MANDATED
 ACTIVITIES, CONNECTIONS  TO  EMPLOYMENT  OPPORTUNITIES  BASED  ON  THEIR
 SKILLS  IDENTIFIED  WHILE  INCARCERATED  AND ASSISTANCE ACQUIRING STABLE
 AFFORDABLE  HOUSING. THE COLLABORATING AGENCIES SHALL CONTRACT WITH NOT-
 FOR-PROFIT PROVIDERS TO EFFECTUATE THE REQUIREMENTS  SPECIFIED  IN  THIS
 SECTION.
   3. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH APPROPRIATE COMMUNITY ORGAN-
 IZATIONS,  SHALL  SUBMIT  WITHIN  ONE YEAR OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
 SECTION, AND ANNUALLY THEREAFTER, A REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR,  THE  TEMPO-
 RARY  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE  AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY ON THE
 EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PILOT PROGRAM. SUCH REPORTS SHALL INCLUDE AN ANAL-
 YSIS OF THE OUTCOMES  OF  THE  PILOT  PROGRAM  AND  RECOMMENDATIONS  FOR
 CONTINUED  EFFORTS  TO MEANINGFULLY PREPARE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS FOR
 THEIR RELEASE WHILE STILL INCARCERATED, ASSIST  INDIVIDUALS  TO  REINTE-
 GRATE INTO THE COMMUNITY UPON RELEASE AND REDUCE RECIDIVISM. SUCH INFOR-
 MATION  PROVIDED  IN  THE  REPORT  SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
 INFORMATION ON THE TYPES  OF  CONVICTIONS  OF  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS
 PARTICIPATING  IN THE PILOT PROGRAM; THE SPECIFIC TYPES OF SERVICES THAT
 WERE PROVIDED WHILE INCARCERATED AS WELL AS UPON RELEASE;  THE  OUTCOMES
 AND EFFECTIVENESS, TO THE EXTENT IT IS KNOWN, OF SUCH SERVICES PROVIDED;
 WHETHER  PARTICIPANTS  IN  THE  PILOT  PROGRAM  WERE ABLE TO FIND STABLE
 AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND/OR EMPLOYMENT DURING THEIR PARTICIPATION  IN  THE
 PILOT  PROGRAM  AND  ANY  BARRIERS  THAT  MAY  HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THEIR
 INABILITY TO FIND HOUSING AND/OR EMPLOYMENT; AND ANY  OTHER  INFORMATION
 OR  FACTORS  THAT  WERE  IDENTIFIED THAT MAY HAVE CREATED BARRIERS TO AN
 INDIVIDUAL'S REINTEGRATION ONCE RELEASED  AND  THE  ADDITIONAL  SERVICES
 THAT MAY ALLEVIATE THOSE BARRIERS.
   4.  NO  PERSON SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO DEMAND OR REQUIRE PARTICIPATION
 IN THE PILOT PROGRAM AUTHORIZED BY THIS SECTION.
   5. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPART-
 MENT TO HOLD AN INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  IN  CONFINEMENT  BEYOND  THEIR
 EARLIEST RELEASE DATE.
   §  6. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
 ly, 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 and completed on or before such effective date.

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