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Feb 18, 2022 | opinion referred to judiciary |
Jan 05, 2022 | to attorney-general for opinion referred to correction |
Feb 18, 2021 | opinion referred to judiciary |
Jan 28, 2021 | to attorney-general for opinion |
Jan 22, 2021 | referred to correction |
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Chris Burdick
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Rebecca Seawright
A3142 (ACTIVE) - Details
A3142 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to prohibiting involuntary employment of prisoners; provides that no prisoner shall be compelled to provide labor against his or her will by actual force, threats of force, threats of punishment, threats of legal coercion or by any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that, if such person did not provide such labor that such person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint.
A3142 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3142 2021-2022 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction CONCURRENT RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY proposing an amendment to section 24 of article 3 of the constitution, in relation to prohibiting involuntary employment of prisoners Section 1. Resolved (if the Senate concur), That section 24 of article 3 of the constitution be amended to read as follows: § 24. [The legislature shall, by law, provide for the occupation and employment of prisoners sentenced to the several state prisons, peniten- tiaries, jails and reformatories in the state; and no] NO person in any [such] STATE prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or occupation, wherein or whereby his or her work, or the prod- uct or profit of his or her work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation, provided that the legislature may provide by law that such prisoners may voluntarily perform work for nonprofit organizations PROVIDED THAT NO PERSON SHALL BE COMPELLED TO PROVIDE LABOR AGAINST HIS OR HER WILL BY ACTUAL FORCE, THREATS OF FORCE, THREATS OF PUNISHMENT, THREATS OF LEGAL COERCION OR BY ANY SCHEME, PLAN OR PATTERN INTENDED TO CAUSE THE PERSON TO BELIEVE THAT, IF SUCH PERSON DID NOT PROVIDE SUCH LABOR THAT SUCH PERSON OR ANOTHER PERSON WOULD SUFFER PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL OR MENTAL HARM OR PHYS- ICAL RESTRAINT. As used in this section, the term "nonprofit organiza- tion" means an organization operated exclusively for religious, charita- ble, or educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. [This section shall not be construed to prevent the legislature from providing that convicts may work for, and that the products of their labor may be disposed of to, the state or any political division thereof, or for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political division thereof.] EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.