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Senate Bill S4357

2025-2026 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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2025-S4357 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5535
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
2021-2022: S3526, A9553
2023-2024: S2118, A3971

2025-S4357 (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.

2025-S4357 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4357 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4357
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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
 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.

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