Bill Text: NY S06944 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to significant programmatic accomplishment for limited credit time allowances for certain inmates; includes an associate's degree, bachelor's degree, master's degree or doctoral degree by completing a registered program from a New York state degree-granting institution, or a program offered by an out-of-state institution of higher education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - signed chap.35 [S06944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06944-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6944

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to significant  program-
          matic  accomplishment  for  limited credit time allowances for certain
          inmates

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (ii)  of  paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 803-b of the correction law, as amended by a chapter of the laws
     3  of 2019, amending the correction law relating to significant programmat-
     4  ic  accomplishment  for  limited  credit  time  allowances  for  certain
     5  inmates,  as  proposed  in legislative bill numbers S.1379 and A.882, is
     6  amended to read as follows:
     7    (ii) obtains an  [associate's]  associate  degree,  bachelor's  degree
     8  [or],  master's  degree  or  doctoral  degree by completing a registered
     9  program from a New York state degree-granting institution, or a  program
    10  offered by an out-of-state institution of higher education authorized to
    11  offer  post-secondary  distance  education in New York state pursuant to
    12  applicable rules and regulations promulgated by the education department
    13  of the state of New York; or
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    15  manner  as  a  chapter  of the laws of 2019, amending the correction law
    16  relating to significant programmatic accomplishment for  limited  credit
    17  time  allowances  for  certain  inmates, as proposed in legislative bill
    18  numbers S.1379 and A.882, takes effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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