New York S 4379: Requires the educational and vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals are transferable upon release

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S04379 Summary:

BILL NOS04379 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04348

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRROLISON

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Amd §136, Cor L

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Requires that curricula and educational programs provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn educational or vocational credits which shall be transferable to an educational institution upon the release of the incarcerated individual.

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BILL NOS04379 

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

05/13/20251ST REPORT CAL.1032

05/14/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/15/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

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

04/21/20261ST REPORT CAL.794

04/22/20262ND REPORT CAL.

04/27/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/02/2026PASSED SENATE

06/02/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/02/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4379

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 educa-
 tional and vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals are
 transferable upon release

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 136 of the correction law, as
 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. The objective of correctional education in its broadest sense
 5 should be the socialization of the incarcerated individuals through
 6 varied impressional and expressional activities, with emphasis on indi-
 7 vidual incarcerated individual needs. The objective of this program
 8 shall be the return of these incarcerated individuals to society with a
 9 more wholesome attitude toward living, with a desire to conduct them-
 10 selves as good citizens, and with the skill and knowledge which will
 11 give them a reasonable chance to maintain themselves and their depen-
 12 dents through honest labor. To this end each incarcerated individual
 13 shall be given a program of education which, on the basis of available
 14 data, seems most likely to further the process of socialization and
 15 rehabilitation. Provided that, the commissioner, in consultation with
 16 the commissioner of education, shall develop a curricula for and require
 17 provision of an education program to all incarcerated individual, on a
 18 periodic basis, on the consequences and prevention of shaken baby
 19 syndrome which may include the viewing of a video presentation thereon.
 20 The time daily devoted to such education shall be such as is required
 21 for meeting the above objectives. The director of education, subject to
 22 the direction of the commissioner and after consultation with the
 23 commissioner of education, shall develop the curricula and the education

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05815-01-5

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 1 programs that are required to meet the special needs of each correction-
 2 al facility in the department. The commissioner of education shall
 3 ensure such curricula and educational programs provide incarcerated
 4 individuals the opportunity to earn educational or vocational credits
 5 which shall be transferable to an educational institution upon the
 6 release of the incarcerated individual. The commissioner of education,
 7 in cooperation with the commissioner and the director of education,
 8 shall set up the educational requirements for the certification of
 9 teachers in all such correctional facilities. Such educational require-
 10 ments shall be sufficiently broad and comprehensive to include training
 11 in penology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, in the special subjects
 12 to be taught, and in any other professional courses as may be deemed
 13 necessary by the responsible officers, and shall include trainin