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Assembly Bill A5459

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals

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2025-A5459 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S319
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §851, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S7444
2023-2024: S302

2025-A5459 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.

2025-A5459 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5459
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to educational leave for
   eligible incarcerated individuals
 
   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 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar-
 cerated  individual to leave the premises of an institution for a period
 not exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education  or
 vocational  training,  or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of
 any such purposes.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, AS  APPLIED  UNDER
 THIS  CHAPTER,  AN  ELIGIBLE  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  SHALL INCLUDE AN
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO IS WITHIN TWO YEARS  OF  BEING  AN  ELIGIBLE
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD00479-01-5

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