STATE OF NEW YORK
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4474
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 12, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, 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 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.
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