New York A 8909: Relates to authorizing voting by incarcerated people

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A08909 Summary:

BILL NOA08909 

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SAME ASSAME AS S08448

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SPONSORBlankenbush

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COSPNSRSimpson

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §601-c, Cor L

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Increases the reimbursement amount authorized to be paid to localities maintaining incarcerated individuals convicted of felonies to $300 per day per capita for the first 10 days, and $600 per day per capita for each day thereafter, or the actual per day per capita cost, whichever is more.

Go to top A08909 Actions:

BILL NOA08909 

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07/16/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

05/19/2026held for consideration in correction

Go to topA08909 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:CORRECTION Chair:Dilan 
DATE:05/19/2026AYE/NAY:8/4 Action: Held for Consideration DilanAyeDiPietroNay

ColtonAyeDeStefanoNay

BurdickAyeBeephanNay

KellesAyeGallahanNay

MeeksExcused

LevenbergAye

BurroughsAye

GallagherAye

PowersAye

Go to topA08909 Floor&nbspVotes:

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

Go to topA08909 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8909

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 July 16, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BLANKENBUSH -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to increasing the
 reimbursement amount authorized to be paid to localities maintaining
 incarcerated individuals convicted of felonies

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

 1 Section 1. Section 601-c of the correction law, as added by section 2
 2 of part M of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 § 601-c. Felony [prisoners] incarcerated individuals; reimbursement
 5 for costs. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case where
 6 a person has been convicted of a felony and a sentence has been
 7 pronounced which requires that [he or she] such person be committed to
 8 the custody of the commissioner, if such person has not been accepted
 9 for custody by the commissioner within ten business days of receipt of a
 10 written notification by the department from the appropriate local offi-
 11 cial that [he or she] the commissioner is prepared to transport such
 12 person to the facility designated by the department, provided that there
 13 has been compliance with subdivision (a) of section six hundred one of
 14 this article, and provided further that such person is not in need of
 15 immediate medical care requiring the availability of a hospital or
 16 infirmary bed, then the expense of maintaining such person shall be paid
 17 by the state at the rate of [one] three hundred dollars per day per
 18 capita for the first ten days and six hundred dollars per day per capita
 19 for each day thereafter, or the actual per day per capita cost as certi-
 20 fied by the appropriate local official, whichever is [less] more, begin-
 21 ning with the first day of receipt of written notification by the
 22 department.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13413-02-5

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