Bill Text: NY A07854 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the publication of notice within twenty-four hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision by department press release by posting on the department's public website.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - reported referred to rules [A07854 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07854-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7854--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY July 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, MAMDANI, SHIMSKY, LEVENBERG -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Correction in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the publication of notice of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other indi- vidual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision 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 17 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 17. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within twenty-four 4 hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual 5 in the custody of the department, the department shall publish notice of 6 such death on the department's website. 7 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read 8 as follows: 9 § 511. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within twenty-four 10 hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual 11 in the custody of the department, the department, the sheriff of the 12 county, or in counties within the city of New York the commissioner of 13 correction of such city, or in the county of Westchester the commission- 14 er of correction of such county shall publish notice of such death on 15 the locality's website. 16 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11798-04-4