Assembly Bill A6458

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to discharge planning to assist inmates in obtaining housing before release to community supervision

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A6458 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4843
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §201, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A7593, S2792
2023-2024: S3269

2019-A6458 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist inmates in obtaining housing before release to community supervision.

2019-A6458 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6458
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law, in relation to the department of
   correction and community supervision's role with respect to  discharge
   planning  to  assist  inmates  in  obtaining housing before release to
   community supervision

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 201 of the correction law, as
 added by section 32 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws  of
 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   5.  The  department shall assist inmates eligible for community super-
 vision and inmates who are on community supervision  to  secure  employ-
 ment,  educational  or  vocational  training,  and  housing.    PRIOR TO
 RELEASE, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ASSIST SUCH INMATES TO SECURE  HOUSING  BY
 ENGAGING  IN ALL NECESSARY DISCHARGE PLANNING, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED
 TO EXPLORING ALL TYPES OF HOUSING RESOURCES  AVAILABLE  AND  POTENTIALLY
 AVAILABLE  TO  THE  INMATE.  IN  EVERY  INSTANCE  THAT  THE DEPARTMENT'S
 DISCHARGE PLANNING RESULTS IN RELEASE TO TEMPORARY HOUSING IN A  SHELTER
 REGULATED  PURSUANT  TO 18 NYCRR PARTS 491 AND 900, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
 (A) REIMBURSE THE LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT FOR THE COST OF PROVID-
 ING SUCH TEMPORARY HOUSING IN A SHELTER, (B) PROVIDE  A  REPORT  TO  THE
 LOCAL  SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO SUCH DISCHARGE THAT
 SHALL INCLUDE A DESCRIPTION OF ALL DISCHARGE PLANNING UNDERTAKEN FOR THE
 INDIVIDUAL INMATE, AND (C) ONCE EVERY THIRTY  DAYS  FOLLOWING  DISCHARGE
 UNTIL THE INMATE IS NO LONGER SUBJECT TO PAROLE, PROVIDE A REPORT TO THE
 LOCAL  SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICT DESCRIBING ALL CONTINUING ASSISTANCE THE
 DEPARTMENT HAS PROVIDED TO THE INMATE TO OBTAIN HOUSING THAT IS  NOT  TO
 TEMPORARY  HOUSING IN A SHELTER REGULATED PURSUANT TO 18 NYCRR PARTS 491
 AND 900 AND DOES NOT VIOLATE THE TERMS OF THE INMATE'S PAROLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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