New York S 2509: Relates to increasing the penalty for a moving violation which results in the serious bodily injury or death of another person

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S02509 Summary:

BILL NOS02509A

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SAME ASSAME AS A06136-B

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SPONSORSALAZAR

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §504, Cor L

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Relates to the transfer of incarcerated individuals from a county jail to a state correctional institution when such county jail becomes unsafe for the confinement of incarcerated individuals due to extraordinary circumstances.

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BILL NOS02509A

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01/21/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

03/25/2025REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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

03/27/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

03/27/2026PRINT NUMBER 2509A

05/05/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2509--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the transfer of
 incarcerated individuals from a county jail to a state correctional
 institution

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 504 of the correction law, as
 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 2. (a) Where the jail in a county becomes [unfit or] unsafe for the
 5 confinement of some or all of the incarcerated individuals due to [an
 6 incarcerated individual disturbance or other] extraordinary circum-
 7 stances, including but not limited to a natural disaster, or unantic-
 8 ipated deficiencies in the structural integrity of a facility [or the
 9 inability to provide one or more incarcerated individuals with essential
 10 services such as medical care], upon the request of the municipal offi-
 11 cial as defined in subdivision four of section forty of this chapter and
 12 no other suitable place within the county nor the jail of any other
 13 county is immediately available to house some or all of the incarcerated
 14 individuals, the commissioner of corrections and community supervision
 15 may, in [his or her] such commissioner's sole discretion, make avail-
 16 able, upon such terms and conditions as [he or she] such commissioner
 17 may deem appropriate, all or any part of a state correctional institu-
 18 tion for the confinement of some or all of such incarcerated individuals
 19 as an adjunct to the county jail for a period not to exceed thirty days.
 20 Neither an incarcerated individual disturbance nor an inability to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05956-05-6

 S. 2509--A 2

 1 provide one or more incarcerated individuals with essential services
 2 including, but not limited to, medical care or mental health care shall
 3 provide a basis for a transfer of an incarcerated individual from a jail
 4 in a county to a state correctional facility.
 5 [However, if] (b) If the county jail remains [unfit or] unsafe for the
 6 confinement of some or all of such incarcerated individuals beyond thir-
 7 ty days, and no other suitable place within the original county nor the
 8 jail of any other county is immediately available to house some or all
 9 of such incarcerated individuals, the state commission of correction,
 10 with the consent of the commissioner of corrections and community super-
 11 vision, may extend the availability of a state correctional institution
 12 for one or more additional thirty day periods. The state commission of
 13 correction shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the tempo-
 14 rary transfer of incarcerated individuals to state correctional insti-
 15 tutions from county jails, including but not limited to provisi