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Assembly Bill A8739

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the preservation of records of certain violations in correctional facilities

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2025-A8739 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L

2025-A8739 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations to establish and maintain a system for the preservation of data on tier one violations in correctional facilities.

2025-A8739 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8739
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 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 preserving records of
   certain violations in correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS  TO  ESTAB-
 LISH  AND  MAINTAIN  A  SYSTEM  FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DATA ON TIER ONE
 VIOLATIONS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, WHICH SHALL  BE  KEPT  SEPARATELY
 FROM  AN  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL'S INSTITUTIONAL RECORD, AND SHALL NOT
 PREVENT A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY FROM REMOVING A TIER ONE VIOLATION  FROM
 AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL'S INSTITUTIONAL RECORD.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13254-01-5

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