Bill Text: NY S00643 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to integrating community supervision programs into an individual's employment, educational or vocational training schedule.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6977A [S00643 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S00643-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         643--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. SEPULVEDA, MYRIE, RIVERA, SAVINO, STAVISKY -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- recommitted to the
          Committee  on  Crime  Victims, Crime and Correction in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to integrating community
          supervision  programs  into an individual's employment, educational or
          vocational training schedule

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 201 of the correction law, as
     2  amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  The  department shall assist incarcerated individuals eligible for
     5  community supervision and [incarcerated] individuals who are on communi-
     6  ty supervision to secure employment, educational or vocational training,
     7  and housing. Any program the department requires a person  on  community
     8  supervision  to take as a condition of such supervision shall not unrea-
     9  sonably interfere with such person's employment,  educational  or  voca-
    10  tional  training schedule unless such program is a residential treatment
    11  program.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



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