Assembly Bill A7452

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes a New York state prison labor board; repealer

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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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2023-A7452 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6747
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §§184, 185 & 186, amd Cor L, generally; rpld §162 sub 2 ¶a, sub 4 ¶a sub¶ (iii), sub 5, amd §§162 & 139-j, St Fin L; amd §1-c, Leg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10919, S8851
2021-2022: A3481, S416

2023-A7452 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes a New York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply with the requirements of the labor law and are for the purpose of promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community and not for the purpose of earnings or cost-savings which inure to the benefit the state or any private individual or corporation; prohibits the department of corrections and community supervision from unfairly attaching, garnishing or disbursing the funds of incarcerated individuals where such individuals have not requested disbursement; requires that all interest accumulated on incarcerated individuals' funds be credited to such individual's accounts; eliminates the preferred status of the department of corrections and community supervision regarding commodities and services furnished by the correctional industries program

2023-A7452 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7452
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  establishing  a  New
   York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply
   with  the  requirements  of  the  labor law and are for the purpose of
   promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry  and  reintegration  into
   the  community  and  not  for  the purpose of earnings or cost-savings
   which inure to the benefit of the state or any private  individual  or
   corporation,  prohibiting  the department of corrections and community
   supervision from unfairly  attaching,  garnishing  or  disbursing  the
   funds  of  incarcerated  individuals  where  such individuals have not
   requested disbursement, and requiring that all interest accumulated on
   incarcerated individuals'  funds  be  credited  to  such  individual's
   accounts;  and  to  repeal sections 184, 185 and 186 of the correction
   law relating thereto; to amend the state finance law and the  legisla-
   tive  law,  in  relation  to  eliminating  the preferred status of the
   department of corrections and community supervision regarding  commod-
   ities  and  services furnished by the correctional industries program;
   and to repeal certain provisions of the state finance law relating  to
   such preferred status
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "fairness and opportunity for incarcerated workers act".
   §  2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby declares
 that:
   1. The current system of prison labor in New York is an  outgrowth  of
 the  legacy  of  slavery  and  has been allowed to continue in our state
 because of the exception created in the 13th Amendment  which  abolished
 slavery "except as punishment for a crime."
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00136-02-3
 A. 7452                             2
              

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