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Senate Bill S9580

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to who may visit local correctional facilities

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2021-S9580 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §500-j, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: S181
2025-2026: S1892

2021-S9580 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include accompanying staff of legislative members and members of the department of corrections and community supervision requested by a legislative member.

2021-S9580 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9580 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9580
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 17, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, SALAZAR -- 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 who may  visit  local
   correctional facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by  chapter
 291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   §  500-j.  Who  may visit local correctional facilities. The following
 persons may visit at pleasure all  local  correctional  facilities:  The
 governor  and  lieutenant-governor,  secretary of state, comptroller and
 attorney-general, members of  the  legislature  AND  THEIR  ACCOMPANYING
 STAFF  AS  REQUESTED  BY  THE  MEMBER  OF  THE LEGISLATURE IF THE MEMBER
 REQUESTS TO BE SO ACCOMPANIED,  PROVIDED  THAT  SUCH  REQUEST  DOES  NOT
 IMPACT  UPON  THE  LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY'S ABILITY TO SUPERVISE,
 MANAGE AND CONTROL ITS FACILITIES AS DETERMINED BY THE  SHERIFF  OF  THE
 COUNTY, OR IN THE COUNTIES WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE COMMISSIONER
 OF  SUCH  CITY,  OR  IN  THE  COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, THE COMMISSIONER OF
 CORRECTION OF SUCH COUNTY, judges of the court of appeals,  justices  of
 the  supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every cler-
 gyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the reli-
 gious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the county in
 which such facility is located. No other person not otherwise authorized
 by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms  of  a  local  correctional
 facility  in  which convicts are confined, unless under such regulations
 as the sheriff of the county, or in counties  within  the  city  of  New
 York,  the  commissioner of correction of such city, or in the county of
 Westchester,  the  commissioner  of  correction  of  such  county  shall
 prescribe.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16378-02-2

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