Assembly Bill A1676

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the commissioner of corrections and community supervision's heat mitigation plan for correctional facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A1676 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S764
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L (as proposed in S.7781-A & A.9169-A)

2025-A1676 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the commissioner of corrections and community supervision's heat mitigation plan for correctional facilities; provides findings regarding permanent cooling solutions shall be included.

2025-A1676 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1676
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  commissioner  of
   corrections  and  community  supervision's  heat  mitigation  plan for
   correctional facilities
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section 112 of the correction law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws  of  2024  amending  the  correction  law
 relating  to  establishing an annual heat mitigation plan; and directing
 the extreme heat action plan work group of the  department  of  environ-
 mental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerat-
 ed individuals and people working in prisons, as proposed in legislative
 bills numbers S. 7781-A and A. 9169-A, is amended to read as follows:
   6.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate rules and regulations to
 establish and maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to  ensure  incar-
 cerated  individuals and correctional facility staff have options avail-
 able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such
 plan shall include, to the extent possible:
   (i) access to industrial fans, water, ice, and  additional  access  to
 showers;
   (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin-
 ning of summer;
   (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas;
   (iv)  maintaining  a list of incarcerated individuals and correctional
 facility staff [with] WHO HAVE medical conditions that  make  them  more
 susceptible to heat and monitor their well-being;
   (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and
   (vi)  providing shade on exercise yards IF CONSISTENT WITH THE FACILI-
 TY'S SAFETY AND SECURITY PROTOCOLS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02905-01-5
 A. 1676                             2

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