Bill Text: NY S00575 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00575 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00575-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           575

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        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 rules and regulations
          for strip searches in correctional facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
     3    20. Promulgate rules and regulations establishing  standard  practices
     4  and procedures for the use of strip searches in correctional facilities.
     5  Such rules and regulations shall at a minimum include a requirement that
     6  no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     9  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    10  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    11  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00832-01-5