Bill Text: NY A05752 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits an inmate in a correctional facility serving a life without parole sentence or who has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in articles 130 and 263 of the penal law, from being eligible for conjugal visitation under the family reunion program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-14 - held for consideration in correction [A05752 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05752-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5752 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to visitation of inmates under the family reunion program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 146 of the correction law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, no inmate of a 4 correctional facility who is serving a sentence of life without parole 5 or who has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in articles one 6 hundred thirty and two hundred sixty-three of the penal law, shall be 7 entitled to or be authorized to have visitation by any person under the 8 family reunion program, when that visit is for conjugal purposes. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09616-01-9
