Assembly Bill A1962

2021-2022 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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2021-A1962 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8120
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10641

2021-A1962 (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; allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.

2021-A1962 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1962
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, GALEF, FAHY, DICKENS, SIMON, MAGNARELLI,
   GOODELL -- 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.
                                                            LBD05264-01-1

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