Senate Bill S7444

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to educational leave for eligible inmates

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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-S7444 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7717
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §851, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S302

2021-S7444 (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-S7444 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S7444 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7444
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 18, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. 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 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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