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Assembly Bill A7717

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to educational leave for eligible inmates

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2021-A7717 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7444
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §851, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S302
2025-2026: S319

2021-A7717 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible inmate shall include an inmate who is within two years of being an eligible inmate.

2021-A7717 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7717
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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 educational leave for
   eligible inmates
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Subdivision 7 of section 851 of  the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  691  of  the  laws  of 1977, is amended to read as
 follows:
   7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible inmate
 to leave the premises of an institution for a period not exceeding four-
 teen hours in any day for the purpose of education or vocational  train-
 ing,  or  for  any  matter  necessary  to  the  furtherance  of any such
 purposes. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS APPLIED UNDER THIS  CHAP-
 TER,  AN ELIGIBLE INMATE SHALL INCLUDE AN INMATE WHO IS WITHIN TWO YEARS
 OF BEING AN ELIGIBLE INMATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
 7  of  section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act
 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be  deemed  to
 expire therewith.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11554-01-1

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