Bill Text: NY A02539 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2539

Introduced

Bill Title: 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 he or she 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A02539 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02539-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2539

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee 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:

     1    Section  1. The judiciary law is amended by adding a new section 211-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 211-b. Correctional facility visitation requirements for judges  and
     4  justices.  1.    The  chief  judge shall require justices of the supreme
     5  court, judges of the county court and judges of  the  court  of  claims,
     6  regularly  sitting in a criminal term or in a term with criminal as well
     7  as civil jurisdiction to visit the correctional facility with the  high-
     8  est  population  of incarcerated individuals in the county in which such
     9  justice or judge is appointed  or  elected  within  two  years  of  such
    10  appointment or election and every two years thereafter.  Such visitation
    11  requirement  shall  be  in  addition  to the requirements pursuant to 22
    12  NYCRR section 17.1.
    13    2. Within six months of  a  visit  to  the  correctional  facility  as
    14  required  by subdivision one of this section, the justice or judge shall
    15  prepare a report on the conditions of  such  correctional  facility  and
    16  submit such report to the clerk of the court of appeals. Such conditions
    17  shall  include,  but not be limited to the welfare of incarcerated indi-
    18  viduals,  healthcare  provided  to  incarcerated  individuals,  sanitary
    19  conditions  in  the  correctional  facility and any disciplinary actions
    20  against employees of the correctional facility and incarcerated individ-
    21  uals.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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