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NY A06640

Bill

Status

Introduced

3/6/2025

Primary Sponsor

Stefani Zinerman

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Requires immediate reassignment of correctional officers involved in serious injury, harm, or maltreatment of incarcerated individuals to positions with no direct inmate contact

  • Mandates that officers charged with involvement in an incarcerated individual's homicide be placed on leave during the department's investigation

  • Requires immediate termination of employment if an officer is found to have been involved in a homicide

  • Preserves the right to pursue civil or criminal action against officers regardless of whether department investigations are completed

  • Designated as the "Correctional Abuse Accountability Act"

Legislative Description

Enacts the "correctional abuse accountability act"; requires actions by the department if a correctional officer seriously harms or is responsible for the death of an incarcerated individual.

Last Action

referred to correction

1/7/2026

Committee Referrals

Correction3/6/2025

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