Bill Text: NY A07704 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Schuyler correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest and being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Schuyler.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A07704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07704-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7704

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PALMESANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  the
          Schuyler  correctional  facility  to also be used for the detention of
          persons under arrest and being  held  for  arraignment  in  any  court
          located in the county of Schuyler

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-t to read as follows:
     3    2-t.  The  Schuyler  county correctional facility may also be used for
     4  the detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in  any
     5  court located in the county of Schuyler.
     6    §  2.  Section  500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 26 to read as follows:
     8    26. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  in  the  county  of
     9  Schuyler,  all the provisions of this section shall equally apply in any
    10  case where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for  arraignment
    11  prior  to commitment, as if such person has been judicially committed to
    12  the custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in  the  Schuyler
    13  county correctional facility.
    14    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
    15  the amendments to section 500-c of the correction law, made  by  section
    16  two  of  this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall
    17  be deemed repealed therewith.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11428-01-9