Bill Text: NY A06741 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits persons with a criminal record to volunteer and provide counseling and programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-04-17 - referred to correction [A06741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06741-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6741
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 17, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. BARRON, STEVENSON, ROBINSON, COOK, MONTESANO --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SCHIMEL -- read once  and  referred  to
         the Committee on Correction
       AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to permitting persons
         with a  criminal  record  to  volunteer  and  provide  counseling  and
         programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  624
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S  624. VOLUNTEERS FOR PRISON COUNSELING AND PROGRAMMING; ELIGIBILITY.
    4  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A  PERSON
    5  WITH  A  CRIMINAL  RECORD WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED A STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO
    6  HIS OR HER COMMUNITY AND WHO HAS HAD NO FURTHER INVOLVEMENT OF A  CRIMI-
    7  NAL  NATURE SINCE HIS OR HER LAST CONVICTION FOR TWENTY YEARS OR LONGER,
    8  SHALL BE PERMITTED TO VOLUNTEER AND PROVIDE COUNSELING  AND  PROGRAMMING
    9  SERVICES  TO PRISONERS IF SUCH PERSON MEETS ALL OTHER CRITERIA SET FORTH
   10  BY THE COMMISSIONER.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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