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Assembly Bill A10957

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing home confinement for certain prisoners during a declared state of emergency

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2019-A10957 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §607, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A4363

2019-A10957 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the commissioner to place certain prisoners in home confinement during a declared state of emergency if such state of emergency conditions materially affect the functioning of the department of corrections and community supervision.

2019-A10957 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10957
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 9, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Weprin) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  home
   confinement for certain prisoners during a declared state of emergency
 
   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  607
 to read as follows:
   §  607.  HOME  CONFINEMENT AUTHORITY. 1. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,
 "COVERED EMERGENCY PERIOD" SHALL MEAN THE PERIOD BEGINNING ON  THE  DATE
 ON  WHICH  A  STATE DISASTER EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED BY THE GOVERNOR
 PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWO-B OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW AND ENDING  ON  THE  DATE
 THAT IS THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH STATE DISASTER EMERGEN-
 CY HAS BEEN LIFTED.
   2. DURING A COVERED EMERGENCY PERIOD, IF THE COMMISSIONER SHALL DETER-
 MINE THAT EMERGENCY CONDITIONS WILL MATERIALLY AFFECT THE FUNCTIONING OF
 THE  DEPARTMENT,  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO PLACE ANY
 PRISONER IN HOME CONFINEMENT FOR A PERIOD OF TIME THAT THE  COMMISSIONER
 DEEMS APPROPRIATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17142-01-0

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