Assembly Bill A8333

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits the detainment of minors with adult detainees

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8333 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §500-q, amd §2, Cor L

2025-A8333 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the detainment of minors with adult detainees in the city of New York.

2025-A8333 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8333
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 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  prohibiting  the
   detainment of minors with adult detainees
 
   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 500-q
 to read as follows:
   § 500-Q. PROHIBITION ON THE DETAINMENT OF MINORS WITH ADULT DETAINEES.
 1. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE
 CONTRARY, NO YOUTH UNDER THE AGE OF  EIGHTEEN  SHALL  BE  PLACED,  HELD,
 HOUSED  OR OTHERWISE DETAINED IN A SECURE JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITY IN
 THE CITY OF NEW YORK UTILIZED FOR THE DETAINMENT OF INDIVIDUALS EIGHTEEN
 OR OLDER.
   2. AN ALLEGED OR  CONVICTED  JUVENILE  DELINQUENT,  AS  SUCH  TERM  IS
 DEFINED IN SECTION 301.2 OF THE FAMILY COURT ACT, ADOLESCENT OFFENDER OR
 JUVENILE  OFFENDER,  AS  SUCH  TERMS  ARE DEFINED IN SECTION 1.20 OF THE
 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW, GREATER THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS  OF  AGE,  BUT  LESS
 THAN  TWENTY-TWO  YEARS  OF  AGE,  SHALL  BE  DETAINED AT AN OLDER YOUTH
 DETENTION FACILITY, AS  IN  PARAGRAPH  (D)  OF  SUBDIVISION  SIXTEEN  OF
 SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  2.  Subdivision 16 of section 2 of the correction law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:
   (D) WHENEVER THE TERM "OLDER YOUTH DETENTION FACILITY" IS USED IN THIS
 CHAPTER, SUCH TERM SHALL BE DEEMED TO MEAN A SECURE  JUVENILE  DETENTION
 FACILITY  OPERATED  BY  THE  NEW YORK CITY ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN'S
 SERVICES FOR THE DETAINMENT OF  ADOLESCENT  AND  JUVENILE  OFFENDERS  NO
 YOUNGER THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AND NO OLDER THAN TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF
 AGE.
   §  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11697-01-5

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