Bill Text: NY S04843 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist inmates in obtaining housing before release to community supervision.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04843 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04843-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4843 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 27, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 department of correction and community supervision's role with respect to discharge planning to assist inmates in obtaining housing before release to community supervision The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 201 of the correction law, as 2 added by section 32 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 3 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 5. The department shall assist inmates eligible for community super- 5 vision and inmates who are on community supervision to secure employ- 6 ment, educational or vocational training, and housing. Prior to 7 release, the department shall assist such inmates to secure housing by 8 engaging in all necessary discharge planning, including but not limited 9 to exploring all types of housing resources available and potentially 10 available to the inmate. In every instance that the department's 11 discharge planning results in release to temporary housing in a shelter 12 regulated pursuant to 18 NYCRR Parts 491 and 900, the department shall 13 (a) reimburse the local social services district for the cost of provid- 14 ing such temporary housing in a shelter, (b) provide a report to the 15 local social services district thirty days prior to such discharge that 16 shall include a description of all discharge planning undertaken for the 17 individual inmate, and (c) once every thirty days following discharge 18 until the inmate is no longer subject to parole, provide a report to the 19 local social services district describing all continuing assistance the 20 department has provided to the inmate to obtain housing that is not to 21 temporary housing in a shelter regulated pursuant to 18 NYCRR Parts 491 22 and 900 and does not violate the terms of the inmate's parole. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10150-01-9
