Assembly Actions -
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Mar 07, 2012 |
defeated in crime victims, crime and correction |
Feb 21, 2012 |
notice of committee consideration - requested |
Jan 04, 2012 |
referred to crime victims, crime and correction |
Dec 21, 2011 |
print number 107a |
Dec 21, 2011 |
amend and recommit to crime victims, crime and correction |
Mar 29, 2011 |
defeated in crime victims, crime and correction |
Feb 28, 2011 |
notice of committee consideration - requested |
Jan 05, 2011 |
referred to crime victims, crime and correction |
Senate Bill S107
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
Bill Amendments
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2011-S107 - Details
2011-S107 - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S107 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This legislation requires the Department of Correctional Services to establish academic programs to prepare inmates to complete the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and provides inmates with an opportunity to complete a GED prior to release on parole, conditional release, post release supervision or presumptive release. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section two of the bill provides all inmates serving a determinate term of imprisonment or an indeterminate sentence with the opportunity to complete a GED. Section three of the bill requires the Department of Correctional Services to ensure that all inmates are afforded a reasonable opportunity to do so by providing academic instruction at appropriate Department facilities. Section four provides for an effective date three years after enactment. JUSTIFICATION: Each year, the Department of Correctional Services releases 26,000 former inmates back to the community. The success of these individuals stands to benefit our entire community while their failure will only cause further victimization and feed the revolving
2011-S107 - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 107 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, 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 providing inmates with the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 136 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: S 136. Correctional education. 1. The objective of correctional educa- tion in its broadest sense should be the socialization of the inmates through varied impressional and expressional activities, with emphasis on individual inmate needs. The objective of this program shall be the return of these inmates to society with a more wholesome attitude toward living, with a desire to conduct themselves as good citizens, and with the skill and knowledge which will give them a reasonable chance to maintain themselves and their dependents through honest labor. To this end each inmate 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 curric- ula for and require provision of an education program to all inmates, 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, in [co-op- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2011-S107A (ACTIVE) - Details
2011-S107A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S107A TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law, in relation to providing inmates with the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma PURPOSE: This legislation requires the Department of Correctional Services to establish academic programs to prepare inmates to complete the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) and provides inmates with an opportunity to complete a GED prior to release on parole, conditional release, post release supervision or presumptive release. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section two of the bill provides all inmates serving a determinate term of imprisonment or an indeterminate sentence with the opportunity to complete a GED. Section three of the bill requires the Department of Correctional Services to ensure that all inmates are afforded a reasonable opportunity to do so by providing academic instruction at appropriate Department facilities. Section four provides for an effective date three years after enactment.
2011-S107A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 107--A 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, HASSELL-THOMPSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing inmates with the opportunity to obtain a general equivalency diploma THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 136 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 98 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: S 136. Correctional education. 1. The objective of correctional educa- tion in its broadest sense should be the socialization of the inmates through varied impressional and expressional activities, with emphasis on individual inmate needs. The objective of this program shall be the return of these inmates to society with a more wholesome attitude toward living, with a desire to conduct themselves as good citizens, and with the skill and knowledge which will give them a reasonable chance to maintain themselves and their dependents through honest labor. To this end each inmate 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 curric- ula for and require provision of an education program to all inmates, 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 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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