Relates to certificates of relief from disabilities issued by the department of corrections and community supervision.

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A7813A-2011 Actions

• Feb 6, 2012: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
• Feb 6, 2012: delivered to senate
• Feb 6, 2012: passed assembly
• Feb 2, 2012: advanced to third reading cal.328
• Jan 31, 2012: reported
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to correction
• Jun 13, 2011: amend and recommit to rules 7813a
• Jun 7, 2011: reported referred to rules
• May 17, 2011: referred to correction

A7813A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7813--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                May 17, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  STEVENSON  --  read once and referred to the
    Committee on Correction -- reported and referred to the  Committee  on
    Rules  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
    amended and recommitted to said committee

  AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  certificates  of
    relief  from  disabilities issued by the department of corrections and
    community supervision

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1.    Subdivision  2 of section 702 of the correction law, as
  amended by chapter 342 of the laws  of  1972,  is  amended  to  read  as
  follows:

    2.  Such  certificate  shall  [not]  be  issued  by the court [unless]
  PROVIDED THAT the court is satisfied that:

    (a) The person to whom it is to be granted is an eligible offender, as
  defined in section seven hundred OF THIS ARTICLE;
    (b) The relief to be granted by the certificate is consistent with the
  rehabilitation of the eligible offender; and
    (c) The relief to be granted by the certificate is consistent with the
  public interest.
    S 2.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of  section  703  of  the
  correction law, as amended by section 34 of subpart B of part C of chap-
  ter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:

    The  department  shall  [not] issue [any] A certificate of relief from
  disabilities pursuant to  subdivisions  one  or  two  OF  THIS  SECTION,
  [unless] WHEN the department is satisfied that:

    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD11661-02-1