STATE OF NEW YORK
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1698
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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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 integrating community
supervision programs into an individual's employment, educational or
vocational training schedule
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 201 of the correction law, as
2 added by section 32 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of
3 2011, is amended to read as follows:
4 5. The department shall assist inmates eligible for community super-
5 vision and [inmates] individuals who are on community supervision to
6 secure employment, educational or vocational training, and housing. Any
7 program the department requires a person on community supervision to
8 take as a condition of such supervision shall not unreasonably interfere
9 with such person's employment, educational or vocational training sched-
10 ule unless such program is a residential treatment program.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05636-01-9