S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2118
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, MYRIE, SEPULVEDA -- 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 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,
and partly for the other of such purposes. WHERE PRACTICABLE, INCARCER-
ATED INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE PROVIDED VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO INSTALL SOLAR
HOT WATER SYSTEMS TO PROVIDE HOT WATER TO CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05097-01-3
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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.