Bill Text: NY S07607 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the publication of notice within twenty-four hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision by department press release by posting on the department's public website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - AMENDED ON THIRD READING (T) 7607B [S07607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07607-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7607--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 19, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- 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 notifying the press
          and public of the death of an incarcerated  individual  or  any  other
          individual  occurring  in the custody of the department of corrections
          and community supervision

          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 17 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  17. Notice of death in a correctional facility.  Within twenty-four
     4  hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
     5  occurring in the custody of the department, the department shall  notify
     6  the  press  and the public of such death by department press release and
     7  by posting on the department's public website.
     8    § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 511 to read
     9  as follows:
    10    § 511. Notice of death in a correctional facility. Within  twenty-four
    11  hours of the death of an incarcerated individual or any other individual
    12  under  the custody of the department, the department, the sheriff of the
    13  county, or in counties within the city of New York the  commissioner  of
    14  correction of such city, or in the county of Westchester the commission-
    15  er of correction of such county shall notify the press and the public of
    16  such  death  by  press  release  and by posting on the locality's public
    17  website.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11798-02-3