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Assembly Bill A10120

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to inmate wages

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2017-A10120 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §187, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A4340, A8080
2021-2022: A1502
2023-2024: A6469
2025-2026: A7165

2017-A10120 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to inmate wages; provides that inmates shall be compensated at a base rate of $1.20 to $10 per day and shall be given biannual raises for adequate performance; and provides that inmates not participating in a work or program assignment due to age or frailty shall be paid $1.00 per day, adjusted every 5 years for cost of living.

2017-A10120 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10120
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 16, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to inmate wages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 187 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
   5.  INMATES  SHALL BE COMPENSATED FOR ALL WORK AND PROGRAM ASSIGNMENTS
 AT A BASE RATE OF COMPENSATION OF ONE DOLLAR TWENTY CENTS TO TEN DOLLARS
 PER DAY AND SHALL BE GIVEN BIANNUAL RAISES FOR ADEQUATE  PERFORMANCE  IN
 SUCH  ASSIGNMENTS.  AN  INMATE  WORKING IN A MANUFACTURING OR INDUSTRIAL
 ASSIGNMENT SHALL RECEIVE COMPENSATION OF FIVE TO TEN DOLLARS PER DAY FOR
 THE DURATION OF THE TIME SUCH INMATE WORKS IN SUCH ASSIGNMENT AND  SHALL
 REVERT  TO HIS OR HER PREVIOUS RATE OF COMPENSATION ONCE HE OR SHE IS NO
 LONGER WORKING IN SUCH ASSIGNMENT.   UNLESS AN INMATE  IS  LEAVING  SUCH
 MANUFACTURING  OR  INDUSTRIAL  ASSIGNMENT,  HIS  OR HER COMPENSATION FOR
 PERFORMING HIS OR HER WORK OR PROGRAM ASSIGNMENT SHALL NOT BE  DECREASED
 IF  HE  OR SHE IS TRANSFERRED TO A DIFFERENT FACILITY OR CHANGES ASSIGN-
 MENTS WITHIN A FACILITY. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REVIEW AND ADJUST THE BASE
 RATE OF COMPENSATION OF INMATES EVERY FIVE  YEARS  AFTER  THE  EFFECTIVE
 DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION TO ADJUST FOR COST OF LIVING INCREASES. A COST
 OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT SHALL BE MADE IF THE  SUM  OF  THE  ANNUAL  AVERAGE
 CHANGES  OF THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS (CPI-U), AS
 PUBLISHED ANNUALLY BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF  LABOR  BUREAU  OF
 LABOR STATISTICS, IS TEN PERCENT OR GREATER UPON REVIEW. INMATES WHO ARE
 NOT  ABLE  TO  WORK  OR  PARTICIPATE  IN  PROGRAMS BECAUSE OF A MEDICAL,
 MENTAL, COGNITIVE, DEVELOPMENTAL OR PHYSICAL IMPAIRMENT OR CONDITION  OR
 WHO ARE OVER THE AGE OF SIXTY AND NOT PARTICIPATING IN A WORK OR PROGRAM
 ASSIGNMENT BECAUSE OF AGE-RELATED INFIRMITY OR FRAILTY SHALL BE PAID ONE
 DOLLAR PER DAY, ADJUSTED EVERY FIVE YEARS FOR COST OF LIVING.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15071-01-8

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