Bill Text: NY A09858 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires foster care records of incarcerated individuals to be sent to the correctional facility.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-19 - referred to correction [A09858 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09858-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9858

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2022
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to persons received into
          the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision

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

     1    Section 1. Section 71 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  When  a  person  is committed to the custody of the department and
     4  such person has a previous history of being in the  foster  care  system
     5  pursuant to the social services law the department shall obtain a record
     6  of  said  foster  care including but not limited to what age said person
     7  entered foster care and for what period of time he or she was under said
     8  care. A copy of said records shall be made available  and  delivered  to
     9  any  correctional  facility where said person is incarcerated. A correc-
    10  tional facility for purposes of this subdivision shall include  a  juve-
    11  nile detention facility.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15215-02-2
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