Assembly Bill A3971

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional 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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2023-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2118
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§137 & 171, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9127
2015-2016: A205
2017-2018: A1256
2019-2020: A5310, S4309
2021-2022: A9553, S3526

2023-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.

2023-A3971 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3971
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Ways and Means
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing  vocational
   training  to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot
   water systems for the provision of hot water to  correctional  facili-
   ties

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137  of  the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  322  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:
   4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in  a
 correctional  facility,  each  incarcerated  individual  shall  be given
 sleeping accommodations in a separate cell or room,  provided,  however,
 that  nothing  herein  contained  shall  be construed so as to limit the
 right of the department to utilize dormitory-type  accommodations  where
 necessary or where appropriate to a program of treatment.  TO THE EXTENT
 PRACTICABLE,  SUCH  CELLS,  ROOMS  AND  DORMITORIES  SHALL BE PLUMBED TO
 PROVIDE INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS HOT WATER.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by
 chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose  of  the  production  of
 supplies  for  said  institutions,  or  for  the state, or any political
 subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed  and
 controlled  by  the  state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for
 the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly  for  one,
 and  partly for the other of such purposes. WHERE PRACTICABLE, INCARCER-
 ATED INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE PROVIDED VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO INSTALL  SOLAR
 HOT  WATER  SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE HOT WATER TO CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES
 LACKING IN SUCH AMENITY PURSUANT TO  SUBDIVISION  FOUR  OF  SECTION  ONE
 HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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