| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Apr 21, 2025 |
referred to crime victims, crime and correction |
Senate Bill S7505
2025-2026 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 30th Senate District
Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
Actions
2025-S7505 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §45, Cor L
- Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
-
S5094
2025-S7505 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities; allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.
2025-S7505 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S7505
SPONSOR: CLEARE
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other
correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:
To grant counties the flexibility to reduce jail staffing as the jail
census continues to decline.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section one of this bill amends subdivision 6 of section 45 of the
Corrections Law to grant counties the flexibility in establishing mini-
mum staffing ratios. The State Commission on Corrections must coordinate
with local jail administrators, county chief elected or appointed offi-
cials and county sheriffs in establishing minimum standards.
2025-S7505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
7505
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
April 21, 2025
___________
Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and
other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facili-
ties
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 45 of the correction law, as
amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is
amended to read as follows:
6. Promulgate rules and regulations IN COORDINATION WITH LOCAL JAIL
ADMINISTRATORS, COUNTY CHIEF ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIAL AND COUNTY
SHERIFFS establishing minimum standards for the review of the
construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care,
custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other
correctional programs for all persons confined in correctional facili-
ties. Such rules and regulations shall ALLOW COUNTIES THE FLEXIBILITY IN
ESTABLISHING MINIMUM STAFFING RATIOS AND SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS
SHALL be forwarded to the governor, the temporary president of the
senate and the speaker of the assembly no later than January first,
nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11714-01-5
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