Senate Bill S6088

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to replacing all instances of the words or variations of the words inmate or inmates with the words incarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals or variation thereof

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


  • 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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2019-S6088 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7866
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Various Laws, generally
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S3332, A2395

2019-S6088 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to replacing all instances of the words or variations of the words inmate or inmates with the words incarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals or variation thereof.

2019-S6088 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6088 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6088
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 civil service law, the election law, the executive
   law, the public officers law, the state finance law, the tax law,  the
   workers'  compensation law, the labor law, the transportation law, the
   vehicle and traffic  law,  the  environmental  conservation  law,  the
   public  buildings  law,  the  public health law, the general municipal
   law, the county law, the education law, the mental  hygiene  law,  the
   retirement  and  social  security  law,  the  social services law, the
   general business law, the penal law, the correction law, the  criminal
   procedure  law, the surrogate's court procedure act, the New York city
   criminal court act, the court of claims act, the  civil  practice  law
   and  rules,  the  civil  rights  law, chapter 784 of the laws of 1951,
   constituting the New York state defense emergency act, the administra-
   tive code of the city of New York, and the New York city  charter,  in
   relation  to  replacing  all  instances of the words inmate or inmates
   with the words incarcerated individual or incarcerated individuals
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 136 of the civil service law, as
 amended by section 62 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of  the  laws
 of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The term "teacher", for purposes of this section, means any employ-
 ee  of  a  state  facility  or institution in the office of children and
 family services in the executive department and in  the  departments  of
 corrections and community supervision, health, mental hygiene and social
 services  holding a position the principal duty of which is the teaching
 or instruction of patients or [inmates] INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS, or the
 direct supervision of such teaching or instruction, including an  insti-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11560-01-9
              

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