Bill Text: NY S06850 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Permits the Steuben County sheriff and correctional facility to hold detained persons between arrest and arraignment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-05 - SIGNED CHAP.334 [S06850 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06850-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6850--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     August 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  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 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the Steuben county
          correctional facility
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-s to read as follows:
     3    2-s. The Steuben county correctional facility may also be used for the
     4  detention of persons under arrest being  held  for  arraignment  in  any
     5  court located in the county of Steuben.
     6    §  2.  Section  500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 25 to read as follows:
     8    25. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the county of Steu-
     9  ben, all the provisions of this section shall equally apply in any  case
    10  where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for arraignment prior
    11  to  commitment,  as  if such person has been judicially committed to the
    12  custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in the Steuben county
    13  correctional facility.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    15  the  amendments  to section 500-c of the correction law, made by section
    16  two of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section  and  shall
    17  be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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