Bill Text: NY A10623 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the transfer of incarcerated individuals during a public health emergency except where a correctional facility has an outbreak of a disease unless the incarcerated individual requests such transfer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-10 - referred to correction [A10623 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10623-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10623 IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sayegh) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting the transfer of incarcerated individuals during a public health emergency unless the incarcerated individual requests such transfer The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 626 2 to read as follows: 3 § 626. Care of incarcerated individuals during a public health emer- 4 gency. (a) No incarcerated individual shall be transferred from a state 5 correctional facility or a local correctional facility to a different 6 state correctional facility or local correctional facility during a 7 declared public health emergency; provided, however, that if there is an 8 outbreak of a disease in a state correctional facility or a local 9 correctional facility, incarcerated individuals may be transferred from 10 such facility; provided further, however, that this section shall not 11 apply to transfers requested by incarcerated individuals. 12 (b) During a declared public health emergency, each incarcerated indi- 13 vidual shall be continually tested for any disease related to such 14 public health emergency as soon as is practicable following the develop- 15 ment of a test for such disease. The results from the tests of incarcer- 16 ated individuals shall be reported to the commissioner, the governor, 17 the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16614-03-0