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Assembly Bill A6487

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Expands who may visit local correctional facilities

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2023-A6487 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S181
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §500-j, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9580
2025-2026: A2119, S1892

2023-A6487 (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.

2023-A6487 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6487
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 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 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, MEMBERS OF THE ELECTED LEGISLATIVE BODY
 OF THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY  IS  LOCATED  AND
 THEIR  ACCOMPANYING STAFF AS REQUESTED BY THE MEMBER OF SUCH LEGISLATIVE
 BODY IF THE MEMBER REQUESTS TO BE SO ACCOMPANIED, IN  THE  CITY  OF  NEW
 YORK,  MEMBERS  OF  THE  CITY  COUNCIL  AND  THEIR ACCOMPANYING STAFF AS
 REQUESTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER IF THE COUNCIL 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 CORRECTION  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01331-02-3

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