Bill Text: NY S07607 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the publication of notice within twenty-four hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision by department press release by posting on the department's public website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07607-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7607--B
            Cal. No. 683

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime
          Victims, Crime and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report, ordered to a third reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the publication of
          notice of the death of an incarcerated individual or any  other  indi-
          vidual  occurring  in the custody of the department of corrections and
          community supervision

          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 17 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  17. Notice of death in a correctional facility.  Within twenty-four
     4  hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
     5  in the custody of the department, the department shall publish notice of
     6  such death on the department's website.
     7    § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read
     8  as follows:
     9    § 511. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within  twenty-four
    10  hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
    11  in  the  custody  of  the department, the department, the sheriff of the
    12  county, or in counties within the city of New York the  commissioner  of
    13  correction of such city, or in the county of Westchester the commission-
    14  er  of  correction  of such county shall publish notice of such death on
    15  the locality's website.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11798-05-4