Bill Text: NY S05714 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the Schuyler correctional facility to also be used for the detention of persons under arrest and being held for arraignment in any court located in the county of Schuyler.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05714 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05714-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5714

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  O'MARA -- 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 authorizing the
          Schuyler correctional facility to also be used for  the  detention  of
          persons  under  arrest  and  being  held  for arraignment in any court
          located in the county of Schuyler

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Section 500-a of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 2-t to read as follows:
     3    2-t. The Schuyler county correctional facility may also  be  used  for
     4  the  detention of persons under arrest being held for arraignment in any
     5  court located in the county of Schuyler.
     6    § 2. Section 500-c of the correction law is amended by  adding  a  new
     7  subdivision 26 to read as follows:
     8    26.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law, in the county of
     9  Schuyler, all the provisions of this section shall equally apply in  any
    10  case  where the sheriff is holding a person under arrest for arraignment
    11  prior to commitment, as if such person has been judicially committed  to
    12  the  custody  of the sheriff and such person may be held in the Schuyler
    13  county correctional facility.
    14    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    15  the  amendments  to section 500-c of the correction law, made by section
    16  two of this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section  and  shall
    17  be deemed repealed therewith.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11428-01-9