What's happening
This bill requires a study and report on barriers to re-entry faced by formerly incarcerated individuals in New York.
Why it matters
Directs two key state agencies to identify specific laws, regulations, and practices that make it harder for formerly incarcerated people to reintegrate. , focusing on essential areas like housing, employment, healthcare, mental health, substance abuse, benefits, and childcare—highlighting how systemic obstacles can hinder successful reentry.
Requires a collaborative approach between state and local agencies. by mandating the sharing of relevant information, which could uncover hidden or unintentional barriers that have not previously been addressed or recognized.
Sets a clear timeline for action and accountability. , requiring a comprehensive public report within twelve months that must include concrete legislative or regulatory recommendations, potentially paving the way for significant policy changes to support reentry and reduce recidivism.
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Study Prisoner Re-Entry Barriers
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Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
- Referred to crime victims, crime and correction
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Review Reentry Barriers for Prisoners
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Luis R. Sepúlveda
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
1056
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
Introduced by Sens. CARLUCCI, ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
AN ACT in relation to the examination of an incarcerated individual's re-entry planning; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The office of temporary and disability assistance and the department of corrections and community supervision shall examine, evaluate and make recommendations on any current sanctions or barriers to re-entry to the community after a sentence of incarceration that exist in statute, law, regulation, policy or practice of the state or local social services districts that have an impact on individuals prior to or after their release from incarceration. The topics examined by such office and department shall, include, but not be limited to any such sanctions or barriers to re-entry that may be found in the following areas:
(a) Housing;
(b) Medical;
(c) Mental health counseling;
(d) Substance abuse and addiction services;
(e) Employment;
(f) Benefits programs; and
(g) Childcare services.
§ 2. The office of temporary and disability assistance and the department of corrections and community supervision shall request and shall receive any available information from state and local agencies that are relevant and material to the study required by section one of this act.
§ 3. Within twelve months of the effective date of this act, the commissioner of the office of temporary and disability assistance and
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the commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision shall submit a report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the minority leader of the senate and minority leader of the assembly and the chairs of the relevant committees in both the senate and assembly, on such office's and such department's findings, conclusions and recommendations and shall submit therewith such legislative or regulatory proposals as deemed necessary to implement their recommendations.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed one year after it shall have become a law.
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act in relation to the examination of an incarcerated individual's re-entry planning; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
Purpose or general idea of bill
To ensure that sanctions are removed or examined as part of an incarcerated individuals re-entry planning.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 requires the office of temporary and disability assistance and the department of corrections and community supervision to examine, evaluate and make recommendations on the current sanctions placed by the state and local social services districts on individual's re-entry planning including but not limited to: Housing; Medical; Mental health counseling; Substance abuse and addiction services; Employment; Benefits programs; and Childcare Services.
Section 2 provides the authority to the office and department to request and receive any available information from state and local agencies that are relevant and material to the study in section 1.
Section 3 requires a report by the office and department within twelve months of the effective date to be delivered to the governor, to the majority and minority leaders of the senate and assembly and to the chairs of relevant committees in both the senate and the assembly on the office and department's findings, conclusions and recommendations and shall submit any legislative or regulatory proposals deemed necessary to implement their recommendations.
Justification
At a recent roundtable, many individuals raised the concern of social service sanctions and the implications that these sanctions have for individuals who are currently incarcerated and will be released shortly.
The concern being that many times when a person is on public assistance and then incarcerated they are often subject to having sanctions placed on them which in many instances stay with them even after they are released which has been a leading cause of recidivism. This legislation will require the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance and the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to conduct an evaluation on the current way the sanction system exists as part of re-entry planning.
Legislative history
2015-16: S6349A/A9124 - Crime Victims/Passed Assembly
Fiscal implications
Minimal
Effective date
The act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be deemed repealed one year after it shall have become law.
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