Relates to permitting legislative staff to visit correctional facilities and removes the exception from visiting facilities in which inmates under sentence of death are confined.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4566
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 14, 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 permitting legisla-
tive staff to visit correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 146 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 234 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all
5 correctional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor, commis-
6 sioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attor-
7 ney-general, members of the commission of correction, members of the
8 legislature and their accompanying staff and any employee of the depart-
9 ment as requested by the member of the legislature if the member
10 requests to be so accompanied, provided that such request does not
11 impact upon the department's ability to supervise, manage and control
12 its facilities as determined by the commissioner, judges of the court of
13 appeals, supreme court and county judges, district attorneys and every
14 clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section two of the
15 religious corporations law, having charge of a congregation in the coun-
16 ty wherein any such facility is situated. No other person not otherwise
17 authorized by law shall be permitted to enter a correctional facility
18 except by authority of the commissioner of correction under such regu-
19 lations as the commissioner shall prescribe. [The provisions of this
20 section shall not apply to such portion of a correctional facility in
21 which inmates under sentence of death are confined.]
22 § 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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