Assembly Bill A1249

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the correctional association's ability to access, visit, inspect, and examine all state correctional facilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S875
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §146, Cor L; amd §3, Chap of 2020 (as proposed in S.8046 & A.10194)

2021-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the correctional association's ability to access, visit, inspect, and examine all state correctional facilities.

2021-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1249
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction law, in relation to the correctional
   association's ability to access, visit, inspect, and examine all state
   correctional facilities; and to amend a chapter of the  laws  of  2020
   amending  the  correction  law relating to permitting the correctional
   association to access, visit, inspect, and examine all  state  correc-
   tional  facilities,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8046
   and A. 10194, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section 146 of the correction law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws  of  2020  amending  the  correction  law
 relating  to  permitting  the correctional association to access, visit,
 inspect, and examine all state correctional facilities, as  proposed  in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S. 8046 and A. 10194, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3. a. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,  the
 correctional  association  shall  be  permitted[,  at  its pleasure,] to
 access, visit, inspect, and examine all  state  correctional  facilities
 [without] WITH SEVENTY-TWO HOURS advance notice to the department. Up to
 twelve people may comprise the [correctional association] visiting party
 [Except  for documents or records created about employees of the depart-
 ment solely for supervisory or disciplinary purposes,  the  correctional
 association  shall  be given unfettered access to all paper, electronic,
 and digital records, including but not  limited  to  documents,  papers,
 logbooks, emails, books, data, video and audio recordings, policies, and
 procedures  pertaining to the management, condition, issues or operation
 of any state correctional facility, including the individual records  of
 incarcerated  individuals  that are not otherwise confidential under the
 mental hygiene law or federal law.]; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT  ONLY  FOUR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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