Assembly Bill A876

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities

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  • 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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2021-A876 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A4064
2019-2020: A1623

2021-A876 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish a staffing plan for all uniformed and non-uniformed employees; further requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities.

2021-A876 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    876
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, MONTESANO, DiPIETRO,
   COOK, B. MILLER, MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the  Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to adequate staffing at
   correctional facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law, as amended by section 19
 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision
 5  as  added  by  chapter 211 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 112. Powers and duties  of  commissioner  relating  to  correctional
 facilities   and   community   supervision.   1.  The  commissioner  [of
 corrections and community supervision] shall have  the  superintendence,
 management  and control of the correctional facilities in the department
 and of the inmates confined therein, and of all matters relating to  the
 government, discipline, policing, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof.
 HE OR SHE SHALL HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO ENSURE THAT ADEQUATE STAFFING
 EXISTS  AT  EVERY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF
 THIS SECTION. He or she shall have the power and it shall be his or  her
 duty to inquire into all matters connected with said correctional facil-
 ities.  He or she shall make such rules and regulations, not in conflict
 with the statutes of this state, for the government of the officers  and
 other  employees  of  the department assigned to said facilities, and in
 regard to the duties to be performed by them, and for the government and
 discipline of each correctional facility, as he or she may deem  proper,
 and  shall cause such rules and regulations to be recorded by the super-
 intendent of the facility, and a copy thereof to be  furnished  to  each
 employee  assigned  to  the  facility.  He or she shall also prescribe a
 system of accounts and records to be kept at each correctional facility,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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