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S319 • 2025

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals

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Sponsor
Julia Salazar
Last action
2026-05-06
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals 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.

What This Bill Does

  • Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals 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.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-06 Senate

    PASSED SENATE

  2. 2026-05-06 Senate

    DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

  3. 2026-05-06 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CORRECTION

  4. 2026-03-04 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  5. 2026-02-26 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  6. 2026-02-25 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.420

  7. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

  8. 2025-06-13 Senate

    COMMITTED TO RULES

  9. 2025-02-10 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  10. 2025-02-05 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  11. 2025-02-04 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.255

  12. 2025-01-08 Senate

    REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Relates to educational leave for eligible incarcerated individuals
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.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           319

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                       (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