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Assembly Bill A9858

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires foster care records of incarcerated individual to be sent to a correctional facility

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2021-A9858 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9062
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §71, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3623
2011-2012: A2720
2013-2014: A2861
2015-2016: A4593, A9982
2017-2018: A1136
2019-2020: A2162, S4474
2023-2024: A652, S1762
2025-2026: A696, S6451

2021-A9858 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires foster care records of incarcerated individuals to be sent to the correctional facility.

2021-A9858 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9858
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 19, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to persons received into
   the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 71 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9.  WHEN  A  PERSON  IS COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT AND
 SUCH PERSON HAS A PREVIOUS HISTORY OF BEING IN THE  FOSTER  CARE  SYSTEM
 PURSUANT TO THE SOCIAL SERVICES LAW THE DEPARTMENT SHALL OBTAIN A RECORD
 OF  SAID  FOSTER  CARE INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WHAT AGE SAID PERSON
 ENTERED FOSTER CARE AND FOR WHAT PERIOD OF TIME HE OR SHE WAS UNDER SAID
 CARE. A COPY OF SAID RECORDS SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE  AND  DELIVERED  TO
 ANY  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY WHERE SAID PERSON IS INCARCERATED. A CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITY FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL INCLUDE  A  JUVE-
 NILE DETENTION FACILITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15215-02-2

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