NY State Senate Bill 2019-S4309

Senate Bill S4309

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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Jan 08, 2020	referred to crime victims, crime and correction
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2019-S4309 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5310
Current Committee:: Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:: Correction Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§137 & 171, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2013-2014: A9127
2015-2016: A205
2017-2018: A1256
2021-2022: S3526, A9553
2023-2024: S2118, A3971

2019-S4309 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.

2019-S4309 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S4309

SPONSOR: BAILEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the correction law, in relation to
providing vocational training to inmates on the installation of solar
hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facili-
ties

 
PURPOSE:

To provide practical and vocational training to inmates and inexpensive,
environmentally sustainable hot water in prison living units in compli-
ance with the American Correctional Association standards.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section I of the bill amends section 137 of the correction law to
provide that, where it is practical, inmate cells, dorms and rooms
should be plumbed to provide hot water to wash basins.

Section II of the bill amends section 171 of the correction law to state

that, where it is practical, inmate vocational training programs shall
be established to provide solar-powered hot water in facilities lacking
running hot water in cells, dorms and rooms where inmates are housed.

Section III sets forth the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

When a convicted person is released from prison, he or she should be
able to obtain employment and lead a law-abiding, productive life. This
bill would encourage the Department of Corrections to provide a voca-
tional program in which inmates would learn to install solar-powered hot
water systems. Solar-powered hot water has been successfully provided at
Wallkill Correctional Facility and in other correctional facilities
throughout the country.

Most of the 22,000 prisoners who live in prison cells do not have
running hot water in their sinks, nor do some of the remaining 23,000
inmates who live in dorms and rooms. Newer prisons have hot water
plumbed to where inmates are housed, but most of the older prisons rely
on inmate labor to manually distribute buckets of hot water to inmates
in their cells. Attica, Auburn, Sing Sing, Clinton, and other older
facilities house thousands of inmates in cold water cells. This bill
would provide vocational training that could result in future employ-
ment. The use of renewable energy sources would not only reduce green-
house emissions, but also save the state money by lowering the energy
costs of facilities.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

This is a new bill.

 
FISCAL IMPACT ON STATE:

Undetermined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become law.

2019-S4309 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4309
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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 vocational
   training to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for
   the provision of hot water to 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 137 of the correction law, as
 added by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in  a
 correctional  facility,  each  inmate  shall  be given sleeping accommo-
 dations in a separate cell or  room,  provided,  however,  that  nothing
 herein  contained  shall  be  construed  so as to limit the right of the
 department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where  necessary  or
 where  appropriate to a program of treatment. TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE,
 SUCH CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES SHALL BE PLUMBED  TO  PROVIDE  INMATES
 HOT WATER.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by
 chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Such  labor  shall  be either for the purpose of the production of
 supplies for said institutions, or  for  the  state,  or  any  political
 subdivision  thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and
 controlled by the state, or any political subdivision  thereof;  or  for
 the  purpose  of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one,
 and partly for the other of such purposes.  WHERE  PRACTICABLE,  INMATES
 SHALL BE PROVIDED VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO INSTALL SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEMS
 TO  PROVIDE  HOT  WATER  TO CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES LACKING IN SUCH
 AMENITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN
 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00978-01-9

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