Bill Text: NY S05978 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "prison privilege limitation act".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05978 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05978-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        5978--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 15, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to enacting the "prison
         privilege limitation act"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  This  act  shall be known and may be cited as the "prison
    2  privilege limitation act".
    3    S 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 624 to read
    4  as follows:
    5    S 624. LIMITATION OF PRISON PRIVILEGES FOR CERTAIN  INDIVIDUALS.    AN
    6  INDIVIDUAL  IN  A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION
    7  FOUR OF SECTION TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, WHO HAS BEEN CONVICTED AND IS SERV-
    8  ING A SENTENCE PURSUANT TO SECTION 125.25, 125.26, 125.27, 130.30 AND/OR
    9  130.35 OF THE PENAL LAW, EXCEPT FOR THE PURPOSES  OF  RECEIVING  MEDICAL
   10  TREATMENT  PURSUANT TO SECTION FIVE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL
   11  NOT BE LEFT IN  THE  COMPANY  OF  CIVILIANS  WITHOUT  SUPERVISION  OF  A
   12  CORRECTION  OFFICER  OR  LAW  ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. IN NO CASE SHALL SUCH
   13  INDIVIDUAL BE GRANTED THE PRIVILEGE OF WEARING CIVILIAN CLOTHING.
   14    S 3. 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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