Bill Text: NY A09369 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the Fulton county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Fulton.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-14 - substituted by s6849 [A09369 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09369-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 6849                                                  A. 9369
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                    February 29, 2016
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        IN  SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. FARLEY -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Crime
          Victims, Crime and Correction
        IN  ASSEMBLY  -- Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  the
          Fulton  county correctional facility to also be used for the detention
          of persons under arrest  being  held  for  arraignment  in  any  court
          located in the county of Fulton
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-o to read as follows:
     3    2-o.  The Fulton county correctional facility may also be used for the
     4  detention of persons under arrest being  held  for  arraignment  in  any
     5  court located in the county of Fulton.
     6    §  2.  Section  500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 21 to read as follows:
     8    21. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  in  the  county  of
     9  Fulton  all  the  provisions  of this section shall equally apply in any
    10  case where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for  arraignment
    11  prior  to commitment, as if such person had been judicially committed to
    12  the custody of the sheriff and such person may be  held  in  the  Fulton
    13  county correctional facility.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided further, that
    15  the amendments to section 500-c of the correction law  made  by  section
    16  two of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall be
    17  deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14017-01-6