New York S 1959: Requires legislative approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions

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S01959 Summary:

BILL NOS01959 

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SAME ASSAME AS A09688

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SPONSORTEDISCO

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, STEC

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §30, Cor L

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Requires legislative approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions.

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BILL NOS01959 

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01/14/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1959

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, HELMING, OBERACKER,
 PALUMBO, STEC -- 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 legislative
 approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions

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

 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 30 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 § 30. Closure of correctional facilities. The department shall submit
 4 a written report to the legislature at least three hundred sixty-five
 5 days prior to the date the department is seeking closure of any correc-
 6 tional facility or institution. Such report shall include justification
 7 for the proposed closure. The legislature may require any additional
 8 information or data that it deems necessary in such report. If the
 9 legislature, or the appropriate committees thereof, upon review of the
 10 report submitted to it by the department, finds that the proposed
 11 closure is not justified then closure shall not occur until approved by
 12 a majority vote of each house of the legislature.
 13 § 2. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part
 14 of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to
 15 be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the
 16 remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause,
 17 sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the
 18 controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
 19 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 20 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 21 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 22 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 23 on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05384-01-5

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