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A02720 Summary:

BILL NO	A02720
SAME AS	No same as
SPONSOR	Clark
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd S71, Cor L
Requires foster care records of inmate to be sent to correctional facility.

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A02720 Actions:

BILL NO	A02720
01/20/2011	referred to correction
01/04/2012	referred to correction

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A02720 Floor Votes:

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A02720 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2720
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 20, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
 
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to persons received into
          the custody of the department of correctional services
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1. Section 71 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  When  a  person  is committed to the custody of the department and
     4  such person has a previous history of being in the  foster  care  system
     5  pursuant to the social services law the department shall obtain a record
     6  of  said  foster  care including but not limited to what age said person
     7  entered foster care and for what period of time he or she was under said
     8  care. A copy of said records shall be made available  and  delivered  to
     9  any  correctional  facility where said person is incarcerated. A correc-
    10  tional facility for purposes of this subdivision shall include  a  juve-
    11  nile detention facility.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06573-01-1

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