New York Assembly Bill A05459 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5459 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals 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 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar- 5 cerated individual to leave the premises of an institution for a period 6 not exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education or 7 vocational training, or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of 8 any such purposes. For purposes of this subdivision, as applied under 9 this chapter, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an 10 incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible 11 incarcerated individual. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 14 7 of section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act 15 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to 16 expire therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00479-01-5