STATE OF NEW YORK
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5978--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 15, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to enacting the "prison
privilege limitation act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "prison
2 privilege limitation act".
3 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 624 to read
4 as follows:
5 § 624. Limitation of prison privileges for certain individuals. An
6 individual in a state correctional facility, as defined by subdivision
7 four of section two of this chapter, who has been convicted and is serv-
8 ing a sentence pursuant to section 125.25, 125.26, 125.27, 130.30 and/or
9 130.35 of the penal law, except for the purposes of receiving medical
10 treatment pursuant to section five hundred eight of this chapter, shall
11 not be left in the company of civilians without supervision of a
12 correction officer or law enforcement officer. In no case shall such
13 individual be granted the privilege of wearing civilian clothing.
14 § 3. 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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