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Senate Bill S3689

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2017-S3689 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8247
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §625, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5978, A8306
2019-2020: S2212, A1349
2021-2022: S1325, A505
2023-2024: S669, A1870
2025-2026: S1043

2017-S3689 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act".

2017-S3689 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3689 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3689
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 25, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. TEDISCO, LARKIN -- 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 enacting the "prison
   privilege limitation act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "prison
 privilege limitation act".
   § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 625 to read
 as follows:
   § 625. LIMITATION OF PRISON PRIVILEGES FOR CERTAIN  INDIVIDUALS.    AN
 INDIVIDUAL  IN  A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION
 FOUR OF SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED AND IS SERV-
 ING A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO SECTION 125.25, 125.26, 125.27, 130.30 AND/OR
 130.35 OF THE PENAL LAW, EXCEPT FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  RECEIVING  MEDICAL
 TREATMENT  PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL
 NOT BE LEFT IN  THE  COMPANY  OF  CIVILIANS  WITHOUT  SUPERVISION  OF  A
 CORRECTION  OFFICER  OR  LAW  ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. IN NO CASE SHALL SUCH
 INDIVIDUAL BE GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE OF WEARING CIVILIAN CLOTHING.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05619-01-7

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