Senate Bill S319

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals

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Current 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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2025-S319 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §851, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7444
2023-2024: S302

2025-S319 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.

2025-S319 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    319
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. SALAZAR, CLEARE -- 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 educational leave for
   eligible incarcerated individuals

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 7 of section 851 of  the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  322  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar-
 cerated individual to leave the premises of an institution for a  period
 not  exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education or
 vocational training, or for any matter necessary to the  furtherance  of
 any  such  purposes.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS APPLIED UNDER
 THIS CHAPTER, AN  ELIGIBLE  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  SHALL  INCLUDE  AN
 INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  WHO  IS  WITHIN TWO YEARS OF BEING AN ELIGIBLE
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 7  of  section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act
 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be  deemed  to
 expire therewith.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00479-01-5

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