Bill Text: NY A06458 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist inmates in obtaining housing before release to community supervision.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-25 - reported referred to ways and means [A06458 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06458-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6458
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 7, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law, in relation to the department of
          correction and community supervision's role with respect to  discharge
          planning  to  assist  inmates  in  obtaining housing before release to
          community supervision
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5  of  section 201 of the correction law, as
     2  added by section 32 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws  of
     3  2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    5.  The  department shall assist inmates eligible for community super-
     5  vision and inmates who are on community supervision  to  secure  employ-
     6  ment,  educational  or  vocational  training,  and  housing.    Prior to
     7  release, the department shall assist such inmates to secure  housing  by
     8  engaging  in all necessary discharge planning, including but not limited
     9  to exploring all types of housing resources  available  and  potentially
    10  available  to  the  inmate.  In  every  instance  that  the department's
    11  discharge planning results in release to temporary housing in a  shelter
    12  regulated  pursuant  to 18 NYCRR Parts 491 and 900, the department shall
    13  (a) reimburse the local social services district for the cost of provid-
    14  ing such temporary housing in a shelter, (b) provide  a  report  to  the
    15  local  social services district thirty days prior to such discharge that
    16  shall include a description of all discharge planning undertaken for the
    17  individual inmate, and (c) once every thirty  days  following  discharge
    18  until the inmate is no longer subject to parole, provide a report to the
    19  local  social services district describing all continuing assistance the
    20  department has provided to the inmate to obtain housing that is  not  to
    21  temporary  housing in a shelter regulated pursuant to 18 NYCRR Parts 491
    22  and 900 and does not violate the terms of the inmate's parole.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10150-01-9