NY State Senate Bill 2017-S3833

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2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A513
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§91 & 92, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2009-2010: S1250
2011-2012: S1429, A398
2013-2014: S5933, A1493
2015-2016: S2394, A781

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of correctional services to enter into agreements with counties and the city of New York to take custody of inmates serving a definite sentence of more than 90 days to alleviate overcrowding in local correctional facilities.

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 BILL NUMBER:  S3833

 TITLE OF BILL :

An act to amend the correction law, in relation to agreements for
custody of definite sentence inmates

 PURPOSE :

Requires the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections to enter
into agreements to house local inmates when the State Commission on
Corrections determines it necessary to alleviate overcrowding at local
correctional facilities.

 SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :

Section 1 amends Section 91 of the Correction Law, as amended by
section 5 of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, requiring
counties to pay the cost of treatment, maintenance and custody of an
inmate housed in a state facility when the State Commission on
Corrections deems it necessary to alleviate overcrowding in a local
facility. The section also provides for the issuance of waivers, the
continuation of agreements between counties or the city of New York to
enter into agreements with any counties to alleviate overcrowding.
Once the State Commission on Corrections makes a determination that
local inmates should be housed in a State facility pursuant to an

agreement, the State Commission on Corrections can no longer mandate
that a locality construct new facilities.

Section 2 amends section 91 of the Correction Law as amended by
Section 10 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011
providing that the commissioner of correction and community
supervision may, subject to the provision of subdivision four of this
section, enter into an agreement with the county or with the city of
New York to provide for custody by the department that requires the
locality to pay the cost of treatment, maintenance and custody of an
inmate furnished by the department.  Subdivision four provides the
commissioner shall enter into an agreement with a county of the city
of New York pursuant to the provisions of this section with it is
determined by the state commission on corrections to be necessary to
alleviate overcrowding at the local correctional facility or
facilities.

Section 3 amends subdivision 4 of section 92 of the Correction Law as
amended by section 6 of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009.

Section 4 amends subdivision 4 of section 92 of the Correction Law as
amended by section 11 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
of 2011.

Section 5 is the effective date.

 JUSTIFICATION :

Recently, the State Department of Corrections made a recommendation to
close four state correctional facilities citing the need for
downsizing. At the same time, a number of county correctional
facilities across the State are experiencing overcrowding issues.
Several counties have been issued temporary waivers from the State
Commission on Corrections allowing them to exceed their current inmate
bed capacity while some county facilities have entered into agreements
with other county facilities to temporarily ease overcrowding issues.

At a time when the State is experiencing an economic downturn and
building costs have escalated, we should be utilizing existing space
before asking taxpayers to fund capital costs that can be avoided if a
shared services approach is fiscally prudent. This bill requires the
Department of Corrections to enter into an agreement with counties
experiencing overcrowding if the State Commission on Corrections
determines this is the best course of action to alleviate
overcrowding.

 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY :

2015-2016: S.2394 Reported and Committed to finance/A.781 Referred to
Corrections
2013-2014: A.1493 Referred to Correction / S.5933 - Reported and
Committed to Finance
2011-2012: A.398A Referred to Correction / S.1429A - Reported to
Finance
2009-2010: A.10191 Referred to Correction / S.1250A - Reported to
Finance
2007-2008: A.11313 Referred to Correction / S.7949A - Passed Senate

 FISCAL IMPLICATIONS :

Should provide significant savings to counties which would otherwise
have to invest in expansion or new buildings.

 EFFECTIVE DATE :
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law, and shall apply to agreements entered into on or before
such effective date; provided that the amendments to section 91 and 92
of the correction law made by sections one and three of this act shall
be subject to the expiration and reversion of such sections pursuant
to section 8 of part H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, as amended,
when upon such date sections two and four of this act shall take
effect.

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3833
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. RITCHIE, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, 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 agreements for custo-
   dy of definite sentence inmates

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 91 of the correction law, as amended by  section  5
 of  part  H  of  chapter  56  of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 91. Agreements for custody of  definite  sentence  inmates.  1.  The
 commissioner  may, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FIVE OF THIS
 SECTION, enter into an agreement with any county or with the city of New
 York to provide for custody by the department  of  persons  who  receive
 definite  sentences  of imprisonment with terms in excess of ninety days
 who otherwise would serve such sentences in the jail,  workhouse,  peni-
 tentiary  or  other local correctional [institution] FACILITY maintained
 by such locality; provided, however, that  a  person  committed  to  the
 custody  of  the department pursuant to an agreement established by this
 section, except a person committed pursuant to  an  agreement  with  the
 city of New York, shall be delivered to a reception center designated by
 the  commissioner  for  an  initial  processing period which shall be no
 longer than seven days, and thereafter, shall be transferred to a gener-
 al confinement correctional facility located in the same county or in  a
 county  adjacent  to  the  county  where  such person would otherwise be
 committed to a local correctional facility. In the event, however,  that
 exigent  circumstances related to health, safety or security arise which
 require the immediate transfer of an inmate to a different facility  not
 within the county or adjacent county, then the department shall, as soon
 thereafter as practicable, arrange for such inmate to be returned to the
 jurisdiction of the county from which he or she was committed.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD04041-01-7

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   2.  Any  such  agreement, except one that is made with the city of New
 York, may be  made  with  the  sheriff,  warden,  superintendent,  local
 commissioner  of  correction  or  other person in charge of such [county
 institution] LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY and shall  be  subject  to  the
 approval of the chief executive officer of the county. An agreement made
 with  the  city  of  New  York  may  be  made  with  the commissioner of
 correction of that city and shall be subject  to  the  approval  of  the
 mayor.
   3. An agreement made under this section [shall require the locality to
 pay  the  cost  of  treatment,  maintenance and custody furnished by the
 department, and the costs incurred under subdivision  two  or  three  of
 section  one  hundred  twenty-five  of  this  chapter  relating  to  the
 provision  of  clothing,  money  and  transportation  upon  release   or
 discharge  of inmates delivered to the department pursuant to the agree-
 ment, and] shall contain at least the following provisions:
   (a) A PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE LOCALITY TO PAY THE COST  OF  TREAT-
 MENT, MAINTENANCE, AND CUSTODY OF AN INMATE FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT;
   (B) A provision specifying the minimum length of the term of imprison-
 ment  of  persons who may be received by the department under the agree-
 ment, which may be any term in excess of ninety days agreed  to  by  the
 parties and which need not be the same in each agreement;
   [(b)]  (C)  A provision that no charge will be made to the state or to
 the department or to any of its institutions during the pendency of such
 agreement for delivery of inmates to the department by officers  of  the
 locality,  and  that  the  provisions of section six hundred two of this
 chapter or of any similar law shall not apply for  delivery  of  inmates
 during such time;
   [(c)] (D) A PROVISION FOR REIMBURSEMENT BY THE LOCALITY TO THE DEPART-
 MENT  TO PAY THE COST OF TREATMENT, MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODY OF AN INMATE
 FURNISHED BY SUCH LOCALITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION NINE-
 TY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE;
   (E) Designation of the correctional facility or  facilities  to  which
 persons under sentences covered by the agreement are to be delivered;
   [(d)] (F) A provision requiring the department to provide transitional
 services  upon  the  release  of persons committed to the custody of the
 department pursuant to an agreement established by this section;
   [(e)] (G) Any other provision the commissioner may deem  necessary  or
 appropriate; and
   [(f)]  (H)  A  provision  giving  either party the right to cancel the
 agreement by giving the other party notice in writing, with cancellation
 to become effective on such date as may be specified in such notice.
   4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the commissioner  shall
 be  authorized to grant, withhold, cause to be forfeited, or cancel time
 allowances as provided in and in compliance with section  eight  hundred
 four of this chapter.
   5.  (A) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (H) OF SUBDIVISION
 THREE OF THIS SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENTER  INTO  AN  AGREEMENT
 WITH A COUNTY OR THE CITY OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 SECTION  WHEN IT IS DETERMINED BY THE STATE COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS TO
 BE NECESSARY TO ALLEVIATE OVERCROWDING AT THE LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILI-
 TY OR FACILITIES. UPON SUCH DETERMINATION, A COUNTY OR THE CITY  OF  NEW
 YORK  SHALL  NOT  BE  REQUIRED BY THE STATE COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS TO
 CONSTRUCT NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
   (B) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE  THE  STATE  COMMISSION  ON
 CORRECTIONS  FROM  ISSUING  WAIVERS  PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, IF IN THE
 DISCRETION OF THE STATE COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS THE  ISSUANCE  OF  THE

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 WAIVER  IS  MORE  APPROPRIATE  THAN  THE  AGREEMENT PROVIDED FOR IN THIS
 SECTION.
   (C)  NOTHING  IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE A COUNTY FROM ENTERING AN
 AGREEMENT WITH A CONTIGUOUS COUNTY OR PROHIBIT THE CONTINUATION  OF  ANY
 EXISTING  AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  THE  COUNTIES FOR THE ALLEVIATION OF OVER-
 CROWDING AT A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
   (D) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE THE CITY OF NEW  YORK  FROM
 ENTERING  INTO  AGREEMENTS WITH ANY COUNTY WITHIN THE STATE TO ALLEVIATE
 OVERCROWDING AT ITS LOCAL FACILITIES.
   6. A copy of such agreement shall be filed with the secretary of state
 and with the clerk of each court having jurisdiction to impose sentences
 covered by the agreement in the county or city to which it applies.
   § 2. Section 91 of the correction law, as amended  by  section  10  of
 subpart  B  of  part  C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 91. Agreements for custody of  definite  sentence  inmates.  1.  The
 [state]  commissioner  of  corrections  and  community  supervision may,
 SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION enter into
 an agreement with any county or with the city of New York to provide for
 custody by the [state] department [of corrections and  community  super-
 vision]  of  persons who receive definite sentences of imprisonment with
 terms in excess of ninety days who otherwise would serve such  sentences
 in the jail, workhouse, penitentiary or other local correctional [insti-
 tution] FACILITY maintained by such locality.
   2.  Any  such  agreement, except one that is made with the city of New
 York, may be  made  with  the  sheriff,  warden,  superintendent,  local
 commissioner  of  correction  or  other person in charge of such [county
 institution] LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY and shall  be  subject  to  the
 approval of the chief executive officer of the county. An agreement made
 with  the  city  of  New  York  may  be  made  with  the commissioner of
 correction of that city and shall be subject  to  the  approval  of  the
 mayor.
   3. An agreement made under this section [shall not require the locali-
 ty  to  pay  the cost of treatment, maintenance and custody furnished by
 the state department of corrections and community supervision and] shall
 contain at least the following provisions:
   (a) A PROVISION THAT REQUIRES THE LOCALITY TO PAY THE COST  OF  TREAT-
 MENT, MAINTENANCE AND CUSTODY OF AN INMATE FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT;
   (B) A provision specifying the minimum length of the term of imprison-
 ment  of  persons  who  may  be  received  by the [state] department [of
 corrections and community supervision] under the agreement, which may be
 any term in excess of ninety days agreed to by  the  parties  and  which
 need not be the same in each agreement;
   [(b)]  (C)  A provision that no charge will be made to the state or to
 the [state] department [of corrections and community supervision] or  to
 any of its institutions during the pendency of such agreement for deliv-
 ery  of  inmates to the [state] department [of corrections and community
 supervision] by officers of the locality, and  that  the  provisions  of
 section  six hundred two of this chapter or of any similar law shall not
 apply for delivery of inmates during such time;
   [(c)] (D) A provision that no charge shall be  made  to  or  shall  be
 payable  by  the  state  during  the  pendency of such agreement for the
 expense of maintaining parole violators pursuant to section two  hundred
 [sixteen]  FIFTY-NINE-I  of  [this  chapter]  THE EXECUTIVE LAW, for the
 expense of maintaining coram nobis prisoners  pursuant  to  section  six
 hundred  one-b of this chapter, OR for the expense of maintaining felony

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 prisoners pursuant to section six hundred one-c of this chapter[, or for
 the expense of maintaining alternative local reformatory inmates  pursu-
 ant  to  section eight hundred thirty-five in institutions maintained by
 the locality];
   [(d)]  (E)  A  provision,  approved  by  the  state  comptroller,  for
 reimbursement of the [state] department [of  corrections  and  community
 supervision] by the locality for expenses incurred under subdivision two
 or  three of section one hundred twenty-five of this chapter relating to
 clothing, money and transportation furnished upon release  or  discharge
 of  inmates  delivered  to  the  [state]  department [of corrections and
 community supervision] pursuant to the agreement;
   (F) A PROVISION FOR REIMBURSEMENT BY THE LOCALITY TO THE DEPARTMENT TO
 PAY THE  COST  OF  TREATMENT,  MAINTENANCE  AND  CUSTODY  OF  AN  INMATE
 FURNISHED BY SUCH LOCALITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION NINE-
 TY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE;
   [(e)]  (G)  Designation  of the correctional facility or facilities to
 which persons under sentences covered by the agreement are to be  deliv-
 ered;
   [(f)] (H) Any other provision the [state] commissioner [of corrections
 and community supervision] may deem necessary or appropriate; and
   [(g)]  (I)  A  provision  giving  either party the right to cancel the
 agreement by giving the other party notice in writing, with cancellation
 to become effective on such date as may be specified in such notice.
   4. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (I) OF  SUBDIVISION
 THREE  OF  THIS  SECTION, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT
 WITH A COUNTY OR THE CITY OF NEW YORK PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
 SECTION WHEN IT IS DETERMINED BY THE STATE COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS  TO
 BE NECESSARY TO ALLEVIATE OVERCROWDING AT THE LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILI-
 TY  OR  FACILITIES. UPON SUCH DETERMINATION, A COUNTY OR THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED BY THE STATE  COMMISSION  ON  CORRECTIONS  TO
 CONSTRUCT NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
   (B)  NOTHING  IN  THIS  SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE THE STATE COMMISSION ON
 CORRECTIONS FROM ISSUING WAIVERS PURSUANT TO THIS  ARTICLE,  IF  IN  THE
 DISCRETION  OF  THE  STATE COMMISSION ON CORRECTIONS THE ISSUANCE OF THE
 WAIVER IS MORE APPROPRIATE THAN  THE  AGREEMENT  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  THIS
 SECTION.
   (C)  NOTHING  IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE A COUNTY FROM ENTERING AN
 AGREEMENT WITH A CONTIGUOUS COUNTY OR PROHIBIT THE CONTINUATION  OF  ANY
 EXISTING  AGREEMENT BETWEEN COUNTIES FOR THE ALLEVIATION OF OVERCROWDING
 AT A LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR FACILITIES.
   (D) NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL PRECLUDE THE CITY OF NEW  YORK  FROM
 ENTERING  INTO  AGREEMENTS WITH ANY COUNTY WITHIN THE STATE TO ALLEVIATE
 OVERCROWDING AT ITS LOCAL FACILITIES.
   5. A copy of such agreement shall be filed with the secretary of state
 and with the clerk of each court having jurisdiction to impose sentences
 covered by the agreement in the county or city to which it applies.
   § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 92 of the correction law, as amended  by
 section  6  of  part  H of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
 read as follows:
   4. In the event any such agreement is cancelled, inmates delivered  to
 the department prior to the date of cancellation shall continue to serve
 their  sentences in the custody of such department and the provisions of
 such agreement shall continue to apply with respect to such  inmates.  A
 copy  of the notice of cancellation shall be filed with the secretary of
 state and with the clerks of courts in the manner provided  in  subdivi-
 sion  [four]  SIX  of section ninety-one of this article, and no inmates

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 shall be delivered to the custody of the department under such agreement
 after the date on which such cancellation becomes effective.
   §  4. Subdivision 4 of section 92 of the correction law, as amended by
 section 11 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   4.  In the event any such agreement is cancelled, inmates delivered to
 the [state] department [of corrections and community supervision]  prior
 to  the  date of cancellation shall continue to serve their sentences in
 the custody of [such] THE department and the provisions of  such  agree-
 ment shall continue to apply with respect to such inmates. A copy of the
 notice  of  cancellation  shall be filed with the secretary of state and
 with the clerks of courts in the manner provided in  subdivision  [four]
 FIVE  of  section  ninety-one  of  this article, and no inmates shall be
 delivered to the custody of the [state] department [of  corrections  and
 community supervision] under such agreement after the date on which such
 cancellation becomes effective.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law, and shall apply to  agreements  entered  into  on  or
 before  such effective date; provided that the amendments to sections 91
 and 92 of the correction law made by sections one and three of this  act
 shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such sections pursu-
 ant  to  section  8  of  part  H  of  chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, as
 amended, when upon such date sections two and four  of  this  act  shall
 take effect.

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Senate Bill S3833

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

co-Sponsors

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Patty Ritchie

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

co-Sponsors

Kathleen A. Marchione

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Details

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Summary

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S3833 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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