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Assembly Bill A7880

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the state to pay for independent autopsies of incarcerated individuals who die in custody

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2025-A7880 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §16, Cor L

2025-A7880 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state to pay for independent autopsies at the request of the next of kin of incarcerated individuals who die in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision.

2025-A7880 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7880
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring  the  state
   to  pay  for independent autopsies of incarcerated individuals who die
   in custody
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 16 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
   3.  THE  REASONABLE EXPENSE OF AN INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY REQUESTED BY THE
 NEXT OF KIN OF AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHOSE DEATH  OCCURRED  IN  THE
 CUSTODY  OF THE DEPARTMENT SHALL, TO THE EXTENT NOT OTHERWISE REIMBURSED
 BY THE STATE, BE A STATE CHARGE. REIMBURSEMENT OF SUCH EXPENSE SHALL  BE
 MADE  ON  VOUCHERS  SUBMITTED ANNUALLY AND CERTIFIED BY THE CHIEF FISCAL
 OFFICER OF THE COUNTY OR CITY AS THE  CASE  MAY  BE  ON  THE  AUDIT  AND
 WARRANT  OF THE COMPTROLLER. THE NEXT OF KIN OF AN INCARCERATED INDIVID-
 UAL WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED IN THE CUSTODY OF THE  DEPARTMENT  MAY  REQUEST
 AND  SHALL  BE  GRANTED  SUCH INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY AFTER THE RECEIPT OF A
 DEATH CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10816-01-5

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