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Senate Bill S3526A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

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

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2021-S3526 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9553
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
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
2019-2020: S4309, A5310
2023-2024: S2118, A3971
2025-2026: S4357, A5535

2021-S3526 - Summary

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

2021-S3526 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3526 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3526
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, MYRIE -- 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

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2021-S3526A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9553
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
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
2019-2020: S4309, A5310
2023-2024: S2118, A3971
2025-2026: S4357, A5535

2021-S3526A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-S3526A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3526A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3526--A
     Cal. No. 86
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, MYRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
   and Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
   and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.  8  --  reported
   favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
   ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered  reprinted,  retaining
   its place in the order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing vocational
   training to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar  hot
   water  systems  for the provision of hot water to correctional facili-
   ties
 
   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
 amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4.  Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in a
 correctional facility,  each  incarcerated  individual  shall  be  given
 sleeping  accommodations  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 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS 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,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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