Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6419
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 preventing retali-
ation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a
grievance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. Where an incarcerated individual has filed a grievance against an
4 officer or other employee of the department, and such incarcerated indi-
5 vidual receives a misbehavior report within one hundred eighty days of
6 the filing of such grievance, at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing
7 for such misbehavior report, such incarcerated individual shall not be
8 found to have committed a violation solely on the oral or written state-
9 ment of the officer or other employee of the department who is the
10 subject of the grievance filed by such incarcerated individual, or any
11 other such officer or other employee of the department who was present
12 at the incident which is the subject of such grievance.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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