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Assembly Bill A10896

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to amending the term residential treatment facility; repealer

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2019-A10896 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7918
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, rpld §73 sub 10, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A1162, S4718
2023-2024: S4333
2025-2026: S5040

2019-A10896 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the term residential treatment facility to remove "persons who are on parole or conditional release" from such term.

2019-A10896 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10896
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Quart) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation  to  amending  the  term
   residential  treatment  facility;  and  to  repeal  subdivision  10 of
   section 73 of the correction law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  2  of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 476 of the laws  of  1970,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   6.  "Residential treatment facility". A correctional facility consist-
 ing of a community based residence in or near a community where  employ-
 ment,  educational  and training opportunities are readily available for
 persons who [are on parole or conditional release and for  persons  who]
 are  or  who  will  soon be eligible for release on parole who intend to
 reside in or near that community when released.
   § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 73 of the correction law is REPEALED.
   § 3. 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.
                                                            LBD15465-01-0

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