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Senate Bill S7176

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain justices and judges to visit the correctional facility with the highest population in the county in which such justice or judge was elected or appointed

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2025-S7176 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3089
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Add §211-b, Judy L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8236, A8571
2023-2024: S5087, A2539

2025-S7176 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires justices of the supreme court, judges of the county court and judges of the court of claims, regularly sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well as civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the highest population of incarcerated individuals in the county in which such justice is appointed or elected within two years of such appointment or election and every two years thereafter; requires a report on the conditions of such correctional facility.

2025-S7176 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7176 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7176
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the judiciary law,  in  relation  to  requiring  certain
   justices  and judges to visit the correctional facility with the high-
   est population in the county  in  which  such  justice  or  judge  was
   elected or appointed
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section  211-b
 to read as follows:
   §  211-B. CORRECTIONAL FACILITY VISITATION REQUIREMENTS FOR JUDGES AND
 JUSTICES. 1.   THE CHIEF JUDGE SHALL REQUIRE  JUSTICES  OF  THE  SUPREME
 COURT,  JUDGES  OF  THE  COUNTY COURT AND JUDGES OF THE COURT OF CLAIMS,
 REGULARLY SITTING IN A CRIMINAL TERM OR IN A TERM WITH CRIMINAL AS  WELL
 AS  CIVIL JURISDICTION TO VISIT THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WITH THE HIGH-
 EST POPULATION OF INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS IN THE COUNTY IN  WHICH  SUCH
 JUSTICE  OR  JUDGE  IS  APPOINTED  OR  ELECTED  WITHIN TWO YEARS OF SUCH
 APPOINTMENT OR ELECTION AND EVERY TWO YEARS THEREAFTER.  SUCH VISITATION
 REQUIREMENT SHALL BE IN ADDITION TO  THE  REQUIREMENTS  PURSUANT  TO  22
 NYCRR SECTION 17.1.
   2.  WITHIN  SIX  MONTHS  OF  A  VISIT  TO THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AS
 REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, THE JUSTICE OR JUDGE  SHALL
 PREPARE  A  REPORT  ON  THE CONDITIONS OF SUCH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND
 SUBMIT SUCH REPORT TO THE CLERK OF THE COURT OF APPEALS. SUCH CONDITIONS
 SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO THE WELFARE OF  INCARCERATED  INDI-
 VIDUALS,  HEALTHCARE  PROVIDED  TO  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS,  SANITARY
 CONDITIONS IN THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY  AND  ANY  DISCIPLINARY  ACTIONS
 AGAINST EMPLOYEES OF THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND INCARCERATED INDIVID-
 UALS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06166-01-5

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