Assembly Bill A6600

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to preventing retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance

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  • 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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2025-A6600 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6419
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Cor L

2025-A6600 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.

2025-A6600 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6600
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation  to  preventing  retali-
   ation  against  incarcerated  individuals  following  the  filing of a
   grievance
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  137 of the correction law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. WHERE AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL HAS FILED A GRIEVANCE  AGAINST  AN
 OFFICER OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT, AND SUCH INCARCERATED INDI-
 VIDUAL  RECEIVES  A MISBEHAVIOR REPORT WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OF
 THE FILING OF SUCH GRIEVANCE, AT AN EVIDENTIARY OR DISCIPLINARY  HEARING
 FOR  SUCH  MISBEHAVIOR REPORT, SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL SHALL NOT BE
 FOUND TO HAVE COMMITTED A VIOLATION SOLELY ON THE ORAL OR WRITTEN STATE-
 MENT OF THE OFFICER OR OTHER EMPLOYEE  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  WHO  IS  THE
 SUBJECT  OF  THE GRIEVANCE FILED BY SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL, OR ANY
 OTHER SUCH OFFICER OR OTHER EMPLOYEE OF THE DEPARTMENT WHO  WAS  PRESENT
 AT THE INCIDENT WHICH IS THE SUBJECT OF SUCH GRIEVANCE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10356-01-5

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