Bill Text: NY S07228 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles and the federal bureau of prisons, to develop a program to provide an identification card to each inmate upon the release of such inmate from custody.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-25 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S07228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07228-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7228--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. BENJAMIN, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  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 providing identifica-
          tion cards to inmates upon release from incarceration

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

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 11 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 11. Identification card program. 1. The commissioner,  in  consulta-
     4  tion  with  the commissioner of motor vehicles and the federal bureau of
     5  prisons, shall develop a program to provide an  identification  card  to
     6  each  inmate  upon  the  release  of such inmate from the custody of the
     7  department or from the custody of the federal  bureau  of  prisons  when
     8  such  inmate is a resident of New York state. No fee shall be charged to
     9  an inmate for the original issuance of such identification card.
    10    2. As used in this section, "identification card" shall have the  same
    11  meaning  as  defined  in  section four hundred ninety of the vehicle and
    12  traffic law.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
    15  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    16  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    17  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14567-03-0
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