Bill Text: NY S04339 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner to place certain incarcerated individuals in home confinement during a declared state of emergency if such state of emergency conditions materially affect the functioning of the department of corrections and community supervision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04339 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04339-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4339

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 7, 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  authorizing  home
          confinement  for  certain  incarcerated  individuals during a declared
          state of emergency

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

     1    Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 608
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 608. Home confinement authority. 1. For purposes  of  this  section,
     4  "covered  emergency  period" shall mean the period beginning on the date
     5  on which a state disaster emergency has been declared  by  the  governor
     6  pursuant  to  article  two-B of the executive law and ending on the date
     7  that is thirty days after the date on which such state disaster emergen-
     8  cy has been lifted.
     9    2. During a covered emergency period, if the commissioner shall deter-
    10  mine that emergency conditions will materially affect the functioning of
    11  the department, the commissioner shall have the authority to  place  any
    12  incarcerated  individual  in  home confinement for a period of time that
    13  the commissioner deems appropriate.
    14    § 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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