Bill Text: NY A10623 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10623 (Prior Session Legislation)

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