Bill Text: NY S04905 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits certain inmate releases on a Thursday instead of Friday to ensure next day reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-15 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7814 [S04905 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04905-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4905
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GALLIVAN  --  (at  request  of  the  Department of
         Corrections and Community  Supervision)  --  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  permitting  certain
         inmate releases to occur on a Thursday to ensure next-day reporting
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 74 of the correction law, as added by  chapter  476
    2  of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 74. Discharge on holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.  Where the date of
    4  release on parole or conditional release, or where the date of discharge
    5  from the care or custody of the department, falls on Saturday or Sunday,
    6  it  shall  be  deemed to fall on the preceding Friday. Where the date of
    7  such release or discharge falls on a legal holiday it shall be deemed to
    8  fall on the preceding day, except that when such legal holiday falls  on
    9  a  Monday  the  date of release shall be deemed to fall on the preceding
   10  Friday.  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, OR ANY OTHER  PROVISION  OF  THE
   11  LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY,  THE COMMISSIONER, IN HIS OR HER DISCRETION, MAY
   12  ADVANCE THE RELEASE DATE OF AN INMATE, WHO IS SCHEDULED TO  BE  RELEASED
   13  ON  A  FRIDAY,  TO  A THURSDAY IN ANY CASE WHERE THE INMATE WILL SERVE A
   14  PERIOD OF COMMUNITY SUPERVISION UPON RELEASE AND THE COMMISSIONER DETER-
   15  MINES THAT PUBLIC SAFETY WILL  BE  ENHANCED  BY  A  NEXT  DAY  REPORTING
   16  REQUIREMENT.
   17    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
   18  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09570-01-5