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Senate Bill S4124

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that the legislature may provide by law that prisoners may voluntarily perform work for nonprofit organizations

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A5598 - Passed Senate

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2009-S4124 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5598
Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Constitution, Concurrent Resolutions to Amend
Laws Affected:
Amd Art 3 ยง24, Constn

2009-S4124 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the legislature may provide by law that prisoners may voluntarily perform work for nonprofit organizations; defines the term "nonprofit organization".

2009-S4124 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4124 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4124

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

            CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY

proposing an amendment to article 3 of the constitution, in relation  to
  allowing  that  the  legislature  may  allow  prisoners to voluntarily
  perform work for nonprofit organizations

  Section 1. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That section 24 of arti-
cle 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows:
  S 24. The legislature shall, by law, provide for  the  occupation  and
employment of prisoners sentenced to the several state prisons, peniten-
tiaries, jails and reformatories in the state; and no person in any such
prison,  penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed
to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupa-
tion, wherein or whereby his or her work, or the product  or  profit  of
his  or  her work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any
person, firm, association or corporation, PROVIDED THAT THE  LEGISLATURE
MAY  PROVIDE BY LAW THAT SUCH PRISONERS MAY VOLUNTARILY PERFORM WORK FOR
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. AS USED IN THIS SECTION,  THE  TERM  "NONPROFIT
ORGANIZATION"  MEANS AN ORGANIZATION OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR RELIGIOUS,
CHARITABLE, OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, NO PART  OF  THE  NET  EARNINGS  OF
WHICH  INURES  TO  THE BENEFIT OF ANY PRIVATE SHAREHOLDER OR INDIVIDUAL.
This section shall not be construed  to  prevent  the  legislature  from
providing  that  convicts  may  work for, and that the products of their
labor may be disposed of to, the state or any political division  there-
of,  or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled
by the state, or any political division thereof.
  S 2. Resolved (if the Assembly concur), That the  foregoing  amendment
be  submitted  to  the people for approval at the general election to be
held in the year 2009 in accordance with the provisions of the  election
law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD89109-01-9

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