Bill Text: NY A01136 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires foster care records of inmate to be sent to correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to correction [A01136 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01136-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1136 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RICHARDSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to persons received into the custody of the department of correctional services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 71 of the correction law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 9 to read as follows: 3 9. When a person is committed to the custody of the department and 4 such person has a previous history of being in the foster care system 5 pursuant to the social services law the department shall obtain a record 6 of said foster care including but not limited to what age said person 7 entered foster care and for what period of time he or she was under said 8 care. A copy of said records shall be made available and delivered to 9 any correctional facility where said person is incarcerated. A correc- 10 tional facility for purposes of this subdivision shall include a juve- 11 nile detention facility. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05580-01-7
