Relates to significant programmatic accomplishment for limited credit time allowances for certain inmates; now includes completion of an associate's, bachelor's or master's degree.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6453
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 22, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 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 section 1 of part E
3 of chapter 55 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) obtains [a masters of professional studies] an associate's
5 degree, bachelor's degree or master's degree; or
6 § 2. 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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