Assembly Bill A192

                             
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                                    192
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GIBBS, SAYEGH, ZINERMAN, EPSTEIN, LEVENBERG,
   GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  REYES,  BICHOTTE HERMELYN,  TAYLOR,  LUCAS,  HYNDMAN,
   TAPIA,  MITAYNES,  BURDICK,  KELLES  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to rules and regulations
   for strip searches in correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
   20.  PROMULGATE  RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISHING STANDARD PRACTICES
 AND PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF STRIP SEARCHES IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
 SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE A REQUIREMENT THAT
 NO FEWER THAN TWO STAFF MEMBERS SHALL BE PRESENT FOR ANY STRIP SEARCH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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