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IN SENATE--Introduced by Sen
--read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
with M. of A. as co-sponsors
a124 Friend a143 Gabryszak a095 Galef a137 Gantt a007 Garbarino a077 Gibson
*CORRELA* (Requires legislative approval for the closure of correctional facilities and institutions) -------Cor. clsr 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 Assembly, do enact as follows: ______________________________
a046 Brook-Krasny a148 Giglio a093 Buchwald a118 Butler a103 Cahill a043 Camara a145 Ceretto a033 Clark a047 Colton a032 Cook a144 Corwin a085 Crespo a122 Crouch a021 Curran a063 Cusick a045 Cymbrowitz a034 DenDekker a080 Gjonaj a066 Glick a023 Goldfeder a150 Goodell a075 Gottfried a005 Graf a100 Gunther a139 Hawley a083 Heastie a003 Hennessey a028 Hevesi a048 Hikind a018 Hooper a042 Jacobs a097 Jaffee
a014 McDonough a072 Rosa a017 McKevitt a107 McLaughlin a038 Miller a052 Millman a015 Montesano a136 Morelle a057 Mosley a039 Moya a067 Rosenthal a025 Rozic a116 Russell a149 Ryan a009 Saladino a111 Santabarbara a029 Scarborough a016 Schimel
1) Single House Bill (introduced and printed separately in either or both houses). Uni-Bill (introduced simultaneously in both houses and printed as one bill. Senate and Assembly introducer sign the same copy of the bill). 2) Circle names of co-sponsors and return to introduction clerk with 2 signed copies of bill and 4 copies of memorandum in support (single house); or 4 signed copies of bill and 8 copies of memorandum in support (uni-bill). LBDC 05/20/13
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Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 30 to read as follows: ______________________________________________________________________ 30. Closure of correctional facilities. The department shall submit ________________________________________________________________________ a written report to the legislature at least three hundred sixty-five ________________________________________________________________________ days prior to the date the department is seeking closure of any correc________________________________________________________________________ tional facility or institution. Such report shall include justification ________________________________________________________________________ for the proposed closure. The legislature may require any additional ________________________________________________________________________ information or data that it deems necessary in such report. If the ________________________________________________________________________ legislature, or the appropriate committees thereof, upon review of the ________________________________________________________________________ report submitted to it by the department, finds that the proposed ________________________________________________________________________ closure is not justified then closure shall not occur until approved by _________________________________________________ a majority vote of each house of the legislature. 2. Severability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction be invalid, such judgment to
remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part thereof directly involved in the
controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered. 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary this act for the implementation of