New York Senate Bill S06419 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6419 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 13, 2025 ___________ 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 preventing retali- ation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 137 of the correction law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. Where an incarcerated individual has filed a grievance against an 4 officer or other employee of the department, and such incarcerated indi- 5 vidual receives a misbehavior report within one hundred eighty days of 6 the filing of such grievance, at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing 7 for such misbehavior report, such incarcerated individual shall not be 8 found to have committed a violation solely on the oral or written state- 9 ment of the officer or other employee of the department who is the 10 subject of the grievance filed by such incarcerated individual, or any 11 other such officer or other employee of the department who was present 12 at the incident which is the subject of such grievance. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10356-01-5