NY State Senate Bill 2023-S2118

Senate Bill S2118

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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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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Jan 03, 2024	referred to crime victims, crime and correction
Jan 18, 2023	referred to crime victims, crime and correction

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2023-S2118 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3971
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
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: S4309, A5310
2021-2022: S3526, A9553
2025-2026: S4357, A5535

2023-S2118 (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-S2118 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2118

SPONSOR: BAILEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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 facilities

 
PURPOSE:

To provide practical and vocational training to incarcerated individuals
and inexpensive, environmentally sustainable hot water in prison living
units in compliance with the American Correctional Association stand-
ards.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section I of the bill amends section 137 of the correction law to
provide that, where it is practical, cells, dorms and rooms should be
plumbed to provide hot water to wash basins.

Section II of the bill amends section 171 of the correction law to state
that, where it is practical, vocational training programs for incarcer-
ated individuals shall be established to provide solar-powered hot water
in facilities lacking running hot water in cells, dorms and rooms where
incarcerated individuals are housed.

Section III sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

When a convicted person is released from prison, he or she should be
able to obtain employment and lead a law-abiding, productive life.  This
bill would encourage the Department of Corrections to provide a voca-
tional program in which incarcerated individuals would learn to install
solar-powered hot water systems. Solar-powered hot water has been
successfully provided at Wallkill Correctional Facility and in other
correctional facilities throughout the country.

Most of the 22,000 prisoners who live in prison cells do not have
running hot water in their sinks, nor do some of the remaining 23,000
incarcerated individuals who live in dorms and rooms. Newer prisons have
hot water plumbed to where incarcerated individuals are housed, but most
of the older prisons rely on the labor of incarcerated individuals to
manually distribute buckets of hot water to incarcerated individuals in
their cells.

Attica, Auburn, Sing Sing, Clinton, and other older facilities house
thousands of incarcerated individuals in cold water cells. This bill
would provide vocational training that could result in future employ-
ment. The use of renewable energy sources would not only reduce green-
house emissions, but also save the state money by lowering the energy
costs of facilities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2019-20: S.4309 - Referred to Crime Victims, Crime and Correction

2021-22: S.3526 - Committed to Rules

 
FISCAL IMPACT ON STATE:

Undetermined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become law.

2023-S2118 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2118
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. BAILEY, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Crime
   Victims, Crime and Correction
 
 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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05097-01-3
 S. 2118                             2

 
 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.

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Jamaal T. Bailey