New York S 5701: Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to establish discharge plans and reentry services for wrongfully convicted individuals upon their discharge

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S05701 Summary:

BILL NOS05701 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04325

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRBAILEY, RYAN C

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §78, add §78-a, Cor L

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Requires the department of corrections and community supervision to establish discharge plans and reentry services for wrongfully convicted individuals upon their discharge which includes housing needs, educational needs, employment needs, medical needs, and specific social service needs.

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BILL NOS05701 

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02/28/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

03/25/20251ST REPORT CAL.609

03/26/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/11/2025PASSED SENATE

06/11/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/11/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

02/25/20261ST REPORT CAL.424

02/26/20262ND REPORT CAL.

03/04/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5701

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BAILEY -- 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 requiring the depart-
 ment of corrections and community supervision to establish discharge
 plans and reentry services for wrongfully convicted individuals upon
 their discharge

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

 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 78 of the correction law, as
 2 added by section 81-b of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 Discharge plans and reentry services; juvenile offenders and adoles-
 5 cent offenders.
 6 § 2. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 78-a to
 7 read as follows:
 8 § 78-a. Discharge plans and reentry services; wrongfully convicted
 9 individuals. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the term:
 10 (a) "wrongfully convicted individual" means a person who has been
 11 convicted and subsequently determined to be innocent of the crime for
 12 which they were convicted.
 13 (b) "discharge plan" means a plan describing the manner in which the
 14 wrongfully convicted individual will be able to receive reentry services
 15 upon release from the custody of the department to the community.
 16 (c) "reentry services" means appropriate programming and support plan-
 17 ning offered to a wrongfully convicted individual upon release from the
 18 custody of the department to the community, as well as follow-up support
 19 offered to the individual after their release.
 20 2. Discharge plans and reentry services. Prior to the release of an
 21 eligible incarcerated individual from the custody of the department, a
 22 designee of the department shall, in consultation with non-profit

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08280-01-5

 S. 5701 2

 1 providers and in conjunction with such wrongfully convicted individual,
 2 develop and offer to such individual a discharge plan. Such discharge
 3 plan shall:
 4 (a) be designed to address the unique needs of the wrongfully
 5 convicted individual, including, but not limited to, the individual's
 6 geographic location upon release from the custody of the department,
 7 housing needs, educational needs, employment needs, medical needs, and
 8 specific social service needs.
 9 (b) provide access to reentry services including, but not be limited
 10 to, case management and connections to employment services, educational
 11 services, mental health services, medical care, housing services, and
 12 other social services that may be available to such wrongfully convicted
 13 individual upon their release.
 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 15 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 16 re