Bill Text: NY A10896 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the term residential treatment facility to remove "persons who are on parole or conditional release" from such term.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to correction [A10896 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10896-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10896 IN ASSEMBLY August 17, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Quart) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to amending the term residential treatment facility; and to repeal subdivision 10 of section 73 of the correction law relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 2 of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 6. "Residential treatment facility". A correctional facility consist- 5 ing of a community based residence in or near a community where employ- 6 ment, educational and training opportunities are readily available for 7 persons who [are on parole or conditional release and for persons who] 8 are or who will soon be eligible for release on parole who intend to 9 reside in or near that community when released. 10 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 73 of the correction law is REPEALED. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15465-01-0
