Senate Bill S8022

Vetoed By Governor
2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires certain reports to the legislature regarding correctional facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A11330 - Vetoed by Governor


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Vetoed By Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S8022 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11330
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง29 & 79-a, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S2765, A3582

2009-S8022 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain reports to the legislature regarding correctional facilities.

2009-S8022 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S8022 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  8022

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 1, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. HASSELL-THOMPSON -- 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 requiring certain
  reports to the legislature regarding correctional facilities

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  29 of the correction law, as
amended by section 1 of part R of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2005,  is
amended to read as follows:
  4.  [The] ON OR BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF FEBRUARY, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN,
AND EVERY YEAR  THEREAFTER,  THE  commissioner  [of  the  department  of
correctional  services] shall provide [an annual] A COMPREHENSIVE report
to  the  legislature  [on  the  staffing  of  correction  officers   and
correction sergeants in state correctional facilities. Such report shall
include,  but  not  be  limited  to the following factors: the number of
security posts on the current plot plan for each facility that have been
closed on a daily basis, by correctional facility  security  classifica-
tion  (minimum,  medium  and  maximum); the number of security positions
eliminated by correctional facility since two thousand compared  to  the
number  of  inmates  incarcerated  in each such facility; a breakdown by
correctional facility  security  classification  (minimum,  medium,  and
maximum)  of the staff hours of overtime worked, by year since two thou-
sand and the annual aggregate costs related to this overtime.  In  addi-
tion,  such report shall be delineated by correctional facility security
classification, the annual number of security positions eliminated,  the
number  of closed posts and amount of staff hours of overtime accrued as
well as the overall overtime expenditures that resulted] EVALUATING  THE
CAPACITY  AND STAFFING OF THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM.  Such report shall be
provided to the TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, THE  SPEAKER  OF  THE
ASSEMBLY,  THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, THE MINORITY LEADER OF THE
ASSEMBLY, AND THE chairs of the senate finance, assembly ways and means,
senate crime VICTIMS, CRIME and [corrections]  CORRECTION  and  assembly

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD17583-01-0
              

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