Bill Text: NY S00181 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include accompanying staff of legislative members and members of the department of corrections and community supervision requested by a legislative member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to correction [S00181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00181-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           181

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, SALAZAR -- 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 who may visit local
          correctional facilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by chapter
     2  291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 500-j. Who may visit local correctional  facilities.  The  following
     4  persons  may  visit  at  pleasure all local correctional facilities: The
     5  governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of  state,  comptroller  and
     6  attorney-general,  members  of  the  legislature  and their accompanying
     7  staff as requested by the  member  of  the  legislature  if  the  member
     8  requests  to  be so accompanied, members of the elected legislative body
     9  of the county in which the local correctional facility  is  located  and
    10  their  accompanying staff as requested by the member of such legislative
    11  body if the member requests to be so accompanied, in  the  city  of  New
    12  York,  members  of  the  city  council  and  their accompanying staff as
    13  requested by the city council member if the council member  requests  to
    14  be  so  accompanied, provided that such request does not impact upon the
    15  local correctional facility's ability to supervise, manage  and  control
    16  its  facilities  as  determined  by the sheriff of the county, or in the
    17  counties within the city of New York, the commissioner of correction  of
    18  such  city,  or  in  the  county  of  Westchester,  the  commissioner of
    19  correction of such county, judges of the court of appeals,  justices  of
    20  the  supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every cler-
    21  gyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the reli-
    22  gious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the county in
    23  which such facility is located. No other person not otherwise authorized

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01331-02-3
        S. 181                              2

     1  by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms  of  a  local  correctional
     2  facility  in  which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations
     3  as the sheriff of the county, or in counties  within  the  city  of  New
     4  York,  the  commissioner of correction of such city, or in the county of
     5  Westchester,  the  commissioner  of  correction  of  such  county  shall
     6  prescribe.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.