S 319 NY
Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals
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Summary
New York S 319 expands eligibility for educational leave for incarcerated individuals in state prisons. The bill amends the definition of "educational leave" to include incarcerated individuals who will become eligible for such leave within the next two years. Educational leave allows eligible individuals to leave a correctional facility for up to 14 hours per day to pursue education or vocational training. This provision allows people who are approaching eligibility to access these educational programs before they officially become eligible. The bill takes effect 90 days after becoming law.
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Official abstract
Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.
Sponsor (1)
- Julia Salazar Democratic · primary
2 coauthors / cosponsors
- Cordell Cleare Democratic · cosponsor
- Robert Jackson Democratic · cosponsor
Action history (12)
- Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION · upper
- Feb 4, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.255 · upper
- Feb 5, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Feb 10, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- Jun 13, 2025 COMMITTED TO RULES · upper
- Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION · upper
- Feb 25, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.420 · upper
- Feb 26, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
- Mar 4, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
- May 6, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
- May 6, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
- May 6, 2026 REFERRED TO CORRECTION · lower
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S00319 Summary: BILL NO S00319   SAME AS SAME AS A05459
  SPONSOR SALAZAR   COSPNSR CLEARE, JACKSON   MLTSPNSR   Amd §851, Cor L   Provides that for the purposes of educational leave, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible incarcerated individual.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
319
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025 ___________
Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, CLEARE -- 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 educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 851 of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 7. "Educational leave" means a privilege granted to an eligible incar- 5 cerated individual to leave the premises of an institution for a period 6 not exceeding fourteen hours in any day for the purpose of education or 7 vocational training, or for any matter necessary to the furtherance of 8 any such purposes. For purposes of this subdivision, as applied under 9 this chapter, an eligible incarcerated individual shall include an 10 incarcerated individual who is within two years of being an eligible 11 incarcerated individual. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law; provided, however, that the amendments to subdivision 14 7 of section 851 of the correction law made by section one of this act 15 shall not affect the expiration of such section and shall be deemed to 16 expire therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00479-01-5
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