S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4309
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
March 7, 2019
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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