Bill Text: NY S00302 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 302

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to correction [S00302 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00302-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           302

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. 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 educational leave for
          eligible incarcerated individuals

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

     1    Section 1.  Subdivision 7 of section 851 of  the  correction  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  322  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar-
     5  cerated individual to leave the premises of an institution for a  period
     6  not  exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education or
     7  vocational training, or for any matter necessary to the  furtherance  of
     8  any  such  purposes.  For purposes of this subdivision, as applied under
     9  this chapter, an  eligible  incarcerated  individual  shall  include  an
    10  incarcerated  individual  who  is  within two years of being an eligible
    11  incarcerated individual.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
    14  7  of  section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act
    15  shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be  deemed  to
    16  expire therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00639-01-3