Assembly Bill A2395

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 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

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor


  • 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

Do you support this bill?

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.
Actions

co-Sponsors

2021-A2395 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3332
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Various Laws, generally
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A7866, S6088

2021-A2395 (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.

2021-A2395 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2395
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on 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-
 tution education director, as determined  by  the  department  of  civil
 service subject to approval of the director of the budget.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.