Senate Bill S2200

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to temporary release eligibility for judicially ordered comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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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2021-S2200 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §851, Cor L; amd §60.04, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4324
2023-2024: S4920

2021-S2200 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to temporary release eligibility for judicially ordered comprehensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment.

2021-S2200 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2200 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2200
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
   Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law and the penal  law,  in  relation  to
   temporary  release  eligibility  for  judicially ordered comprehensive
   alcohol and substance abuse treatment

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 851 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 60 of the laws of  1994,  the  opening  paragraph  as
 amended  by  chapter  320  of the laws of 2006, the closing paragraph as
 amended by section 42 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of  the  laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   2. "Eligible inmate" means: a person confined in an institution who is
 eligible  for  release on parole or who will become eligible for release
 on parole or conditional release within two years OR WHO HAS COMPLETED A
 JUDICIALLY-ORDERED SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAM IN A STATE  CORREC-
 TIONAL  FACILITY  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  SIX OF SECTION 60.04 OF THE
 PENAL LAW. Provided, however,  that  a  person  under  sentence  for  an
 offense  defined in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision one of section
 70.02 of the penal law, where such offense involved the use  or  threat-
 ened  use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument shall not be eligi-
 ble to participate in a work release program until he or she is eligible
 for release on parole or who will be eligible for release on  parole  or
 conditional  release within eighteen months. Provided, further, however,
 that a person under a determinate  sentence  as  a  second  felony  drug
 offender  for  a  class  B felony offense defined in article two hundred
 twenty of the penal law, who was sentenced pursuant to section 70.70  of
 such  law,  shall  not be eligible to participate in a temporary release
 program until the time served under imprisonment for his or her determi-
 nate  sentence,  including  any  jail  time  credited  pursuant  to  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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