Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities and allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 17, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and
other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facili-
ties
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 45 of the correction law, as
amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is
amended to read as follows:
6. Promulgate rules and regulations IN COORDINATION WITH LOCAL JAIL
ADMINISTRATORS, COUNTY CHIEF ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIAL AND COUNTY
SHERIFFS establishing minimum standards for the review of the
construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care,
custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other
correctional programs for all persons confined in correctional facili-
ties. Such rules and regulations shall ALLOW COUNTIES THE FLEXIBILITY IN
ESTABLISHING MINIMUM STAFFING RATIOS AND SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS
SHALL be forwarded to the governor, the temporary president of the
senate and the speaker of the assembly no later than January first,
nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16698-01-0
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