Bill Text: NY S02574 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to permanently terminate the conjugal visit program, commonly known as the family reunion program; further directs such commissioner to prohibit the establishment of any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families the opportunity to privately meet for an extended period of time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02574-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2574
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction
        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to the commissioner of
          the department of corrections and  community  supervision's  power  to
          permanently  terminate  the conjugal visit program, referred to as the
          family reunion program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.   Section 146 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. The commissioner shall permanently  terminate  the  conjugal  visit
     4  program  referred to as the family reunion program set forth in part two
     5  hundred twenty of title seven of the New  York  code,  rules  and  regu-
     6  lations.   Such commissioner shall further prohibit the establishment of
     7  any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families  the
     8  opportunity to meet privately for an extended period of time.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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