Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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319
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, CLEARE -- 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 educational leave for
eligible incarcerated individuals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 851 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar-
5 cerated individual to leave the premises of an institution for a period
6 not exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education or
7 vocational training, or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of
8 any such purposes. For purposes of this subdivision, as applied under
9 this chapter, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an
10 incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible
11 incarcerated individual.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
14 7 of section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act
15 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to
16 expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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