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Assembly Bill A6233

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Permits persons with a criminal record to volunteer and provide counseling and programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances

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2015-A6233 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง624, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9728
2013-2014: A6741

2015-A6233 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits persons with a criminal record to volunteer and provide counseling and programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances.

2015-A6233 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6233

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 18, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Correction

AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to permitting persons
  with a  criminal  record  to  volunteer  and  provide  counseling  and
  programming services within the prison system in certain circumstances

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

  Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  624
to read as follows:
  S  624. VOLUNTEERS FOR PRISON COUNSELING AND PROGRAMMING; ELIGIBILITY.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,  A  PERSON
WITH  A  CRIMINAL  RECORD WHO HAS DEMONSTRATED A STEADFAST COMMITMENT TO
HIS OR HER COMMUNITY AND WHO HAS HAD NO FURTHER INVOLVEMENT OF A  CRIMI-
NAL  NATURE SINCE HIS OR HER LAST CONVICTION FOR TWENTY YEARS OR LONGER,
SHALL BE PERMITTED TO VOLUNTEER AND PROVIDE COUNSELING  AND  PROGRAMMING
SERVICES  TO PRISONERS IF SUCH PERSON MEETS ALL OTHER CRITERIA SET FORTH
BY THE COMMISSIONER.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09510-01-5

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