Bill Text: NY A03159 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits an inmate in a correctional facility serving a life without parole sentence or who has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in articles 130 and 263 of the penal law, from being eligible for conjugal visitation under the family reunion program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-23 - referred to correction [A03159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A03159-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3159
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 23, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. REILICH, KOLB, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
         of A. CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to visitation of inmates
         under the family reunion program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  146 of the correction law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    3    3. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS SECTION, NO INMATE OF A
    4  CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WHO IS SERVING A SENTENCE OF LIFE  WITHOUT  PAROLE
    5  OR  WHO  HAS  BEEN CONVICTED OF A SEX OFFENSE AS DEFINED IN ARTICLES ONE
    6  HUNDRED THIRTY AND TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THE PENAL  LAW,  SHALL  BE
    7  ENTITLED  TO OR BE AUTHORIZED TO HAVE VISITATION BY ANY PERSON UNDER THE
    8  FAMILY REUNION PROGRAM, WHEN THAT VISIT IS FOR CONJUGAL PURPOSES.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01209-01-3
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