STATE OF NEW YORK
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5040
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, MYRIE -- 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 amending the term
residential treatment facility; and to repeal subdivision 10 of
section 73 of the correction law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 2 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 6. "Residential treatment facility". A correctional facility consist-
5 ing of a community based residence in or near a community where employ-
6 ment, educational and training opportunities are readily available for
7 persons who [are on parole or conditional release and for persons who]
8 are or who will soon be eligible for release on parole who intend to
9 reside in or near that community when released.
10 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 73 of the correction law is REPEALED.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09733-01-5
