Bill Text: NY S03269 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist incarcerated individuals in obtaining housing before release to community supervision.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03269-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3269

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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  the  department  of
          corrections and community supervision's role with respect to discharge
          planning  to  assist  incarcerated  individuals  in  obtaining housing
          before release to community supervision

          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 484 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  The  department shall assist incarcerated individuals eligible for
     5  community supervision and individuals who are on  community  supervision
     6  to  secure  employment, educational or vocational training, and housing.
     7  Any program the department requires a person on community supervision to
     8  take as a condition of such supervision shall not unreasonably interfere
     9  with such person's employment, educational or vocational training sched-
    10  ule unless such program is a residential  treatment  program.  Prior  to
    11  release,  the  department  shall assist such incarcerated individuals to
    12  secure housing by engaging in all necessary discharge planning,  includ-
    13  ing  but  not limited to exploring all types of housing resources avail-
    14  able and potentially available to the incarcerated individual. In  every
    15  instance  that the department's discharge planning results in release to
    16  temporary housing in a shelter regulated pursuant to 18 NYCRR Parts  491
    17  and  900,  the  department shall (a) reimburse the local social services
    18  district for the cost of providing such temporary housing in a  shelter,
    19  (b)  provide  a report to the local social services district thirty days
    20  prior to  such  discharge  that  shall  include  a  description  of  all
    21  discharge  planning  undertaken for the incarcerated individual, and (c)
    22  once every thirty days following discharge until the incarcerated  indi-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01115-01-3
        S. 3269                             2

     1  vidual  is  no  longer  subject to parole, provide a report to the local
     2  social  services  district  describing  all  continuing  assistance  the
     3  department has provided to the incarcerated individual to obtain housing
     4  that  is  not  temporary  housing  in a shelter regulated pursuant to 18
     5  NYCRR Parts 491 and 900 and does not violate the terms of the  incarcer-
     6  ated individual's parole.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.