STATE OF NEW YORK
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1892--A
Cal. No. 260
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,
Crime and Correction -- reported favorably from said committee,
ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to who may visit local
correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by chapter
2 291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 500-j. Who may visit local correctional facilities. The following
4 persons may visit at pleasure all local correctional facilities: The
5 governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and
6 attorney-general, members of the legislature and their accompanying
7 staff as requested by the member of the legislature, members of the
8 elected legislative body of the county in which the local correctional
9 facility is located and their accompanying staff as requested by the
10 member of such legislative body, in the city of New York, members of the
11 city council and their accompanying staff as requested by the city coun-
12 cil member, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the supreme
13 court and county judges, district attorneys and every [clergyman] cler-
14 gymember 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 in which such facility is located. No other person not otherwise
17 authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the rooms of a local
18 correctional facility in which convicts are confined, unless under such
19 regulations as the sheriff of the county, or in counties within the city
20 of New York, the commissioner of correction of such city, or in the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05549-03-5
S. 1892--A 2
1 county of Westchester, the commissioner of correction of such county
2 shall prescribe.
3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
