Bill Text: NY A09186 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9186

Bill Title: Provides for the return of any identification materials to an individual upon release from custody.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [A09186 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09186-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9186--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. DILAN, DICKENS, TAYLOR, WALKER, DAVILA, ARDILA,
          HYNDMAN, LUCAS, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to  the  Committee
          on Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law, in relation to providing for the
          return of any identification materials to an individual  upon  release
          from custody

          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 125  of  the  correction  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  322  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The superintendent, or an employee covered by bond  who  is  desig-
     5  nated  by  the  superintendent, of each correctional facility shall take
     6  charge of all moneys and other articles which  may  be  brought  to  the
     7  facility  by  the incarcerated individuals, including but not limited to
     8  any identification, and shall  cause  the  same,  immediately  upon  the
     9  receipt thereof, to be entered among the receipts of the facility; which
    10  money  and  other articles, including but not limited to any identifica-
    11  tion materials, whenever the incarcerated individual from whom the  same
    12  was  received shall be discharged from the custody of the department, or
    13  the same shall be otherwise legally demanded, shall be returned  by  the
    14  said  superintendent  to  such  incarcerated  individual or other person
    15  legally entitled to the same, and vouchers shall be taken therefor.  The
    16  commissioner  shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  concerning the
    17  custody and transfer of such money and other articles, including but not
    18  limited to any identification  materials  in  cases  where  incarcerated
    19  individuals are transferred from one facility to another.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09684-02-4