New York A 2119: Establishes an intergenerational educational and mentoring service program to provide assistance to students in elementary schools

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A02119 Summary:

BILL NOA02119A

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SAME ASSAME AS S01892-B

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SPONSORWeprin

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COSPNSRShrestha, Epstein, Anderson, Cook, Simone, Sayegh, Alvarez, Jacobson, Zaccaro, Steck,
 Gonzalez-Rojas, Raga, Kelles, Simon, Bores, Meeks, Levenberg, Davila, Gibbs, Reyes, Mamdani, Tapia,
 Shimsky, Burdick, Carroll R, Clark, Rivera, Gallagher, Burroughs, Colton, Benedetto, Seawright,
 Rosenthal, Lucas, Forrest, Hooks

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §500-j, Cor L

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Expands who may visit local correctional facilities to include persons and accompanying staff of the chief executive officer of a county, members of a county legislative body, mayor of the city of New York, New York city public advocate, New York city comptroller, and members of the New York city council.

Go to top A02119 Actions:

BILL NOA02119A

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01/15/2025referred to correction

03/28/2025amend and recommit to correction

03/28/2025print number 2119a

04/02/2025reported 

04/03/2025advanced to third reading cal.90

01/07/2026ordered to third reading cal.80

Go to topA02119 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CORRECTION Chair:Dilan 
DATE:04/02/2025AYE/NAY:12/0 Action: Favorable DilanAyeDiPietroExcused

ColtonAyePalmesanoAye

BurdickAyeDeStefanoAye

CruzAyeBeephanAye

EpsteinAye

GibbsAye

MeeksAye

LevenbergAye

BurroughsAye

Go to topA02119 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA02119 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2119--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, SHRESTHA, EPSTEIN, ANDERSON, COOK,
 SIMONE, SAYEGH, ALVAREZ, JACOBSON, ZACCARO, STECK, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
 RAGA, KELLES, SIMON, BORES, MEEKS, LEVENBERG, DAVILA, GIBBS, REYES,
 MAMDANI, TAPIA, SHIMSKY, BURDICK, R. CARROLL, CLARK, RIVERA, GALLAGHER
 -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to who may visit local
 correctional facilities

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

 1 Section 1. Section 500-j of the correction law, as amended by chapter
 2 291 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 500-j. Who may visit local correctional facilities. 1. The follow-
 4 ing persons and their accompanying staff may visit, at their pleasure,
 5 all local correctional facilities: The governor [and], lieutenant-gover-
 6 nor, secretary of state, comptroller [and], attorney-general, members of
 7 the legislature, judges of the court of appeals, justices of the supreme
 8 court [and], county judges, and district attorneys [and every].
 9 2. The following persons and their accompanying staff may visit, at
 10 their pleasure, the local correctional facilities located in the county
 11 or city of their jurisdiction: the chief executive officer of a county,
 12 members of a county legislative body, mayor of the city of New York, New
 13 York city public advocate, New York city comptroller, and members of the
 14 New York city council.
 15 3. Every clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in section
 16 two of the religious corporations law, [having] may visit, at their
 17 pleasure, the local correctional facilities located in the county or
 18 city of which they have charge of a congregation [in the county in which
 19 such facility is located].

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05549-04-5

 A. 2119--A 2

 1 4. No other person not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted
 2 to enter the rooms of a local correctional facility in which convicts
 3 are confined, unless under such regulations as the sheriff of the coun-
 4 ty, or in counties within the city of New York, the commissioner of
 5 correction of such city, or in the county of Westchester, the commis-
 6 sioner of correction of such county shall prescribe.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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