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Assembly Bill A7883

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the state to pay for the delivery of the body of a deceased incarcerated individual to their next of kin

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2025-A7883 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §624-a, Cor L

2025-A7883 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state to pay for the delivery of the body of a deceased incarcerated individual to their next of kin when such incarcerated individual dies in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision.

2025-A7883 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7883
 
                        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 the delivery of the body of a deceased incarcerated indi-
   vidual to their next of kin
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 624-a
 to read as follows:
   §  624-A.  DEATH  OF  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL;  DISPOSITION  OF BODY.
 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE  CONTRA-
 RY,  WHEN  AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL DIES IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPART-
 MENT, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DELIVER THE BODY OF SUCH  INCARCERATED  INDI-
 VIDUAL  TO THEIR NEXT OF KIN WHO IS A RELATIVE BY BLOOD OR MARRIAGE OR A
 BONA FIDE FRIEND. THE EXPENSE OF SUCH DELIVERY SHALL  BE  BORNE  BY  THE
 STATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10815-01-5

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