Senate Bill S6944

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to significant programmatic accomplishment for limited credit time allowances for certain inmates

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9060 - Signed by Governor

  • 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-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9060
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §803-b, Cor L (as proposed in S.1379 & A.882)

2019-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to significant programmatic accomplishment for limited credit time allowances for certain inmates; includes an associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree or doctoral degree by completing a registered program from a New York state degree-granting institution, or a program offered by an out-of-state institution of higher education.

2019-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6944 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6944
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 6, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to significant  program-
   matic  accomplishment  for  limited credit time allowances for certain
   inmates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of
 section 803-b of the correction law, as amended by a chapter of the laws
 of 2019, amending the correction law relating to significant programmat-
 ic  accomplishment  for  limited  credit  time  allowances  for  certain
 inmates,  as  proposed  in legislative bill numbers S.1379 and A.882, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (ii) obtains an  [associate's]  ASSOCIATE  degree,  bachelor's  degree
 [or],  master's  degree  OR  DOCTORAL  DEGREE BY COMPLETING A REGISTERED
 PROGRAM FROM A NEW YORK STATE DEGREE-GRANTING INSTITUTION, OR A  PROGRAM
 OFFERED BY AN OUT-OF-STATE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AUTHORIZED TO
 OFFER  POST-SECONDARY  DISTANCE  EDUCATION IN NEW YORK STATE PURSUANT TO
 APPLICABLE RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
 OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter  of the laws of 2019, amending the correction law
 relating to significant programmatic accomplishment for  limited  credit
 time  allowances  for  certain  inmates, as proposed in legislative bill
 numbers S.1379 and A.882, takes effect.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 S                                                          LBD00601-02-9

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