Bill Text: NY A06849 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to permitting legislative staff to visit correctional facilities and removes the exception from visiting facilities in which inmates under sentence of death are confined.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-09-13 - signed chap.274 [A06849 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06849-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6849 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 21, 2019 ___________ 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 permitting legisla- tive staff to visit correctional facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 146 of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 234 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all 5 correctional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor, commis- 6 sioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attor- 7 ney-general, members of the commission of correction, members of the 8 legislature and their accompanying staff and any employee of the depart- 9 ment as requested by the member of the legislature if the member 10 requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not 11 impact upon the department's ability to supervise, manage and control 12 its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of 13 appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every 14 clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the 15 religious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the coun- 16 ty wherein any such facility is situated. No other person not otherwise 17 authorized by law shall be permitted to enter a correctional facility 18 except by authority of the commissioner of correction under such regu- 19 lations as the commissioner shall prescribe. [The provisions of this20section shall not apply to such portion of a correctional facility in21which inmates under sentence of death are confined.] 22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10795-01-9