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NY A03704
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
David Weprin
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AI Summary
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Creates a temporary state commission to study local correctional facilities located outside New York City, with emphasis on medical and mental health care, overcrowding, incarcerated deaths, use of force, restraints, and solitary confinement practices
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Establishes an 11-member commission with appointments by the governor (3), senate temporary president (2), senate minority leader (1), assembly speaker (2), and assembly minority leader (1), plus two ex-officio members
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Grants commission members unrestricted access to all local correctional facilities, including authority to conduct confidential interviews and obtain unredacted documents
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Requires at least one public hearing in each of seven upstate cities: Albany, Buffalo, Plattsburgh, Poughkeepsie, Rochester, Syracuse, and Utica
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Mandates annual reports and a final report with recommendations within 3 years, after which the commission expires
Legislative Description
Creates a temporary state commission relating to local correctional facilities in upstate New York; provides commission study shall place emphasis on medical and mental health care, overcrowding, incarcerated individual deaths, use of force, restraints, and all segregation and confinement practices and solitary confinement.
Last Action
referred to correction
1/7/2026