Bill Text: NY S09580 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include accompanying staff of legislative members and members of the department of corrections and community supervision requested by a legislative member.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-10-17 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09580 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09580-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9580

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 17, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to who may  visit  local
          correctional facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by  chapter
     2  291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  500-j.  Who  may visit local correctional facilities. The following
     4  persons may visit at pleasure all  local  correctional  facilities:  The
     5  governor  and  lieutenant-governor,  secretary of state, comptroller and
     6  attorney-general, members of  the  legislature  and  their  accompanying
     7  staff  as  requested  by  the  member  of  the legislature if the member
     8  requests to be so accompanied,  provided  that  such  request  does  not
     9  impact  upon  the  local  correctional  facility's ability to supervise,
    10  manage and control its facilities as determined by the  sheriff  of  the
    11  county, or in the counties within the city of New York, the commissioner
    12  of  such  city,  or  in  the  county of Westchester, the commissioner of
    13  correction of such county, judges of the court of appeals,  justices  of
    14  the  supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every cler-
    15  gyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the reli-
    16  gious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the county in
    17  which such facility is located. No other person not otherwise authorized
    18  by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms  of  a  local  correctional
    19  facility  in  which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations
    20  as the sheriff of the county, or in counties  within  the  city  of  New
    21  York,  the  commissioner of correction of such city, or in the county of
    22  Westchester,  the  commissioner  of  correction  of  such  county  shall
    23  prescribe.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16378-02-2