Bill Text: NY S04270 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes the detaining in the Orange county correctional facility of persons awaiting arraignment or appearance in any local court in the county of Orange.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04270 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04270-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4270--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to authorizing the use
          of the Orange  county  correctional  facility  for  the  detention  of
          persons under arrest being held for arraignment or appearance
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding  a
     2  new subdivision 2-t to read as follows:
     3    2-t.  The Orange county correctional facility may also be used for the
     4  detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment or  appear-
     5  ance in any court located in the county of Orange.
     6    §  2.  Section  500-c of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     7  subdivision 26 to read as follows:
     8    26. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  in  the  county  of
     9  Orange  all  the  provisions  of this section shall equally apply in any
    10  case where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for  arraignment
    11  or appearance prior to commitment, as if such person has been judicially
    12  committed  to  the custody of the sheriff and such person may be held in
    13  the Orange county correctional facility.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided that the  amend-
    15  ment to section 500-c of the correction law, made by section two of this
    16  act,  shall not affect the repeal of such section pursuant to section 12
    17  of chapter 907 of the laws of 1984, as  amended,  and  shall  be  deemed
    18  repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10430-02-9
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