Bill Text: NY A09169 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commission of corrections and community supervision to establish an annual heat mitigation plan; directs the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09169 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9169

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing an annu-
          al heat mitigation plan; and directing the extreme  heat  action  plan
          work  group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze
          the impact of extreme heat  on  incarcerated  individuals  and  people
          working in prisons

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate rules and regulations to
     4  establish and maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to  ensure  incar-
     5  cerated  individuals and correctional facility staff have options avail-
     6  able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such
     7  plan shall include, but not be limited to:
     8    (i) access to industrial fans, water, ice, and  additional  access  to
     9  showers;
    10    (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin-
    11  ning of summer;
    12    (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas;
    13    (iv)  maintaining  a list of incarcerated individuals and correctional
    14  facility staff with medical conditions that make them  more  susceptible
    15  to heat and monitor their well-being;
    16    (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and
    17    (vi) providing shade on exercise yards.
    18    (b)  The  commissioner,  as  part  of such heat mitigation plan, shall
    19  develop a timeline to establish cooling stations and provide evaporative
    20  fans to each facility.
    21    § 2. The extreme heat action plan work  group  of  the  department  of
    22  environmental  conservation  shall analyze the impact of extreme heat on
    23  incarcerated individuals and people working in  prisons  and  articulate
    24  their  specific  needs  in  such  work group's long-term heat adaptation
    25  plan.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13122-02-3
        A. 9169                             2

     1    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     2  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     3  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
     4  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
     5  on or before such effective date.