STATE OF NEW YORK
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7717
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to educational leave for
eligible inmates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 851 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 691 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible inmate
5 to leave the premises of an institution for a period not exceeding four-
6 teen hours in any day for the purpose of education or vocational train-
7 ing, or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of any such
8 purposes. For purposes of this subdivision, as applied under this chap-
9 ter, an eligible inmate shall include an inmate who is within two years
10 of being an eligible inmate.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision
13 7 of section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act
14 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to
15 expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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