Assembly Bill A10641

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs in such facilities

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A10641 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A1962

2019-A10641 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities and allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.

2019-A10641 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10641
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 17, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
   for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
   care, custody, correction,  treatment,  supervision,  discipline,  and
   other  correctional  programs for all persons confined in such facili-
   ties
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  45 of the correction law, as
 amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2009,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   6.  Promulgate  rules  and regulations IN COORDINATION WITH LOCAL JAIL
 ADMINISTRATORS, COUNTY CHIEF ELECTED OR APPOINTED  OFFICIAL  AND  COUNTY
 SHERIFFS   establishing   minimum   standards  for  the  review  of  the
 construction or improvement of correctional  facilities  and  the  care,
 custody,  correction,  treatment,  supervision,  discipline,  and  other
 correctional programs for all persons confined in  correctional  facili-
 ties. Such rules and regulations shall ALLOW COUNTIES THE FLEXIBILITY IN
 ESTABLISHING  MINIMUM  STAFFING  RATIOS  AND  SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS
 SHALL be forwarded to the  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
 senate  and  the  speaker  of  the assembly no later than January first,
 nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16698-01-0

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