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A02285 Summary:

A02285 Actions:

A02285 Committee Votes:

Committee:CORRECTION   Chair:Weprin      
DATE:01/28/2019AYE/NAY:11/0  Action: Favorable         
Weprin
Aye
Giglio
Aye
Ortiz
Aye
Finch
Excused
Colton
Aye
Palmesano
Aye
Rozic
Aye
Davila
Aye
Mosley
Aye
Blake
Absent
Walker
Aye
De La Rosa
Aye
Quart
Aye

A02285 Floor Votes:

A02285 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2285
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC, BARRON, BLAKE, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE, MOSLEY,
          O'DONNELL, PICHARDO, QUART, STIRPE, WRIGHT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A.  COLTON, COOK, CRESPO, DAVILA, LUPARDO, PERRY, RIVERA, SIMON  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to personal phone calls
          for inmates in certain circumstances
 
          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  137 of the correction law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) Within twenty-four hours  of  disciplinary  confinement,  keeplock
     4  pending  a  disciplinary  hearing, placement in a segregated confinement
     5  unit for administrative purposes, or placement in a  residential  mental
     6  health  treatment unit, and at weekly intervals thereafter for the dura-
     7  tion of such confinement, an inmate shall be permitted to make at  least
     8  one personal phone call, except when to do so would create an unaccepta-
     9  ble risk to the safety and security of inmates or staff.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00815-02-9