Assembly Bill A7814

Signed By Governor
2015-2016 Legislative Session

Permits certain inmate releases on a Thursday instead of Friday to ensure next-day reporting

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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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2015-A7814 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4905
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §74, Cor L

2015-A7814 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits certain inmate releases on a Thursday instead of Friday to ensure next day reporting.

2015-A7814 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7814

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA,  O'DONNELL  -- (at request of the
  Department of Corrections and Community Supervision) -- read once  and
  referred to the Committee on Correction

AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to permitting certain
  inmate releases to occur on a Thursday to ensure next-day reporting

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 74 of the correction law, as added by chapter 476
of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
  S 74. Discharge on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.  Where the date of
release on parole or conditional release, or where the date of discharge
from the care or custody of the department, falls on Saturday or Sunday,
it shall be deemed to fall on the preceding Friday. Where  the  date  of
such release or discharge falls on a legal holiday it shall be deemed to
fall  on the preceding day, except that when such legal holiday falls on
a Monday the date of release shall be deemed to fall  on  the  preceding
Friday.    NOTWITHSTANDING  THE FOREGOING, OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THE
LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE COMMISSIONER, IN HIS  OR  HER  DISCRETION,  MAY
ADVANCE  THE  RELEASE DATE OF AN INMATE, WHO IS SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED
ON A FRIDAY, TO A THURSDAY IN ANY CASE WHERE THE  INMATE  WILL  SERVE  A
PERIOD OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION UPON RELEASE AND THE COMMISSIONER DETER-
MINES  THAT  PUBLIC  SAFETY  WILL  BE  ENHANCED  BY A NEXT DAY REPORTING
REQUIREMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09570-01-5

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