Assembly Bill A9320

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the educational and vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals are transferable upon release

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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-A9320 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5598
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §136, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S4115

2023-A9320 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that curricula and educational programs provide incarcerated individuals the opportunity to earn educational or vocational credits which shall be transferable to an educational institution upon the release of the incarcerated individual.

2023-A9320 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9320
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 29, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring the  educa-
   tional  and  vocational credits earned by incarcerated individuals are
   transferable upon release
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 136 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The  objective  of  correctional  education  in its broadest sense
 should be the socialization  of  the  incarcerated  individuals  through
 varied  impressional and expressional activities, with emphasis on indi-
 vidual incarcerated individual needs.   The objective  of  this  program
 shall  be the return of these incarcerated individuals to society with a
 more wholesome attitude toward living, with a desire  to  conduct  them-
 selves  as  good  citizens,  and with the skill and knowledge which will
 give them a reasonable chance to maintain themselves  and  their  depen-
 dents  through  honest  labor.  To this end each incarcerated individual
 shall be given a program of education which, on the basis  of  available
 data,  seems  most  likely  to  further the process of socialization and
 rehabilitation. Provided that, the commissioner,  in  consultation  with
 the commissioner of education, shall develop a curricula for and require
 provision  of  an education program to all incarcerated individual, on a
 periodic basis, on  the  consequences  and  prevention  of  shaken  baby
 syndrome  which may include the viewing of a video presentation thereon.
 The time daily devoted to such education shall be such  as  is  required
 for  meeting the above objectives. The director of education, subject to
 the direction of  the  commissioner  and  after  consultation  with  the
 commissioner of education, shall develop the curricula and the education
 programs that are required to meet the special needs of each correction-
 al  facility  in  the  department.  THE  COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION SHALL
 ENSURE SUCH CURRICULA  AND  EDUCATIONAL  PROGRAMS  PROVIDE  INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUALS  THE  OPPORTUNITY  TO EARN EDUCATIONAL OR VOCATIONAL CREDITS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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