Senate Bill S3269

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to discharge planning to assist incarcerated individuals in obtaining housing before release to community supervision

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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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2023-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4843
2021-2022: S2792

2023-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist incarcerated individuals in obtaining housing before release to community supervision.

2023-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3269 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3269
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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  the  department  of
   corrections and community supervision's role with respect to discharge
   planning  to  assist  incarcerated  individuals  in  obtaining housing
   before release to community supervision
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 201 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 484 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   5.  The  department shall assist incarcerated individuals eligible for
 community supervision and individuals who are on  community  supervision
 to  secure  employment, educational or vocational training, and housing.
 Any program the department requires a person on community supervision to
 take as a condition of such supervision shall not unreasonably interfere
 with such person's employment, educational or vocational training sched-
 ule unless such program is a residential  treatment  program.  PRIOR  TO
 RELEASE,  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL ASSIST SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS TO
 SECURE HOUSING BY ENGAGING IN ALL NECESSARY DISCHARGE PLANNING,  INCLUD-
 ING  BUT  NOT LIMITED TO EXPLORING ALL TYPES OF HOUSING RESOURCES AVAIL-
 ABLE AND POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL. IN  EVERY
 INSTANCE  THAT THE DEPARTMENT'S DISCHARGE PLANNING RESULTS IN RELEASE TO
 TEMPORARY HOUSING IN A SHELTER REGULATED PURSUANT TO 18 NYCRR PARTS  491
 AND  900,  THE  DEPARTMENT SHALL (A) REIMBURSE THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES
 DISTRICT FOR THE COST OF PROVIDING SUCH TEMPORARY HOUSING IN A  SHELTER,
 (B)  PROVIDE  A REPORT TO THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT THIRTY DAYS
 PRIOR TO  SUCH  DISCHARGE  THAT  SHALL  INCLUDE  A  DESCRIPTION  OF  ALL
 DISCHARGE  PLANNING  UNDERTAKEN FOR THE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL, AND (C)
 ONCE EVERY THIRTY DAYS FOLLOWING DISCHARGE UNTIL THE INCARCERATED  INDI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01115-01-3
              

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