Bill Text: NY S08431 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to authorizing the Broome county correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Broome.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - SIGNED CHAP.505 [S08431 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08431-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8431
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 7, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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 the
          Broome correctional facility to also be  used  for  the  detention  of
          persons  under  arrest being held for arraignment in any court located
          in the county of Broome
          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 Broome 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 Broome.
     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
     9  Broome all the provisions of this section shall  equally  apply  in  any
    10  case  where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for arraignment
    11  prior to commitment, as if such person had been judicially committed  to
    12  the  custody  of  the  sheriff and such person may be held in the Broome
    13  county 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.
                                                                   LBD15538-01-8