Assembly Bill A8959

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to rehabilitation programs for female inmates

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S7281 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2017-A8959 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7281
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §114, Cor L; amd §2, Chap of 2017 (as proposed in S. 3498 and A. 2534)

2017-A8959 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the effective date of a chapter of 2017 relating to rehabilitation programs for female inmates to require that female inmates are provided an array of programs comparable to those provided to male inmates.

2017-A8959 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8959
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law and a chapter of  the  laws  of  2017
   amending  the  correction  law  relating  to  assuring  rehabilitation
   programs for female inmates are equivalent to programs  afforded  male
   inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3498 and A. 2534,
   in relation to making certain technical corrections thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 114 of the correction law, as added by a chapter of
 the laws of 2017 amending the correction law relating to assuring  reha-
 bilitation  programs  for  female  inmates  are  equivalent  to programs
 afforded male inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  3498
 and A. 2534, is amended to read as follows:
   § 114.  Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those
 afforded  men.    [In any state correctional facility in which women are
 detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief  administrative
 officer  of  such  facility to assure that such women be provided equiv-
 alent programs of rehabilitation, including but  not  limited  to  voca-
 tional,  academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made
 therefor, as are provided to male  inmates  of  correctional  facilities
 elsewhere  in  the  state.]  IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF THE COMMISSIONER TO
 ASSURE AN ARRAY  OF  REHABILITATION  PROGRAMS  ARE  PROVIDED  AMONG  THE
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES IN WHICH FEMALE INMATES ARE CONFINED, WITHIN THE
 APPROPRIATIONS  MADE  THEREFOR, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO VOCATIONAL,
 ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRAMS, WHICH ARE COMPARABLE TO  THE  PROGRAMS
 PROVIDED TO MALE INMATES DURING THE COURSE OF THEIR INCARCERATION.
   §  2.  Section  2  of  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of 2017 amending the
 correction law relating to assuring rehabilitation programs  for  female
 inmates are equivalent to programs afforded male inmates, as proposed in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S.  3498 and A. 2534, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect [on the sixtieth day] ONE  YEAR  after
 it   shall  have  become  a  law;  provided  that  the  commissioner  of
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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