Bill Text: NY A00908 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A00908 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00908-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           908

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BURGOS, GIBBS -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to increasing access  to
          substance  abuse  programming for incarcerated individuals whose first
          language is not English

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

     1    Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 627
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 627. Access to substance abuse programming for certain  incarcerated
     4  individuals.  The commissioner shall take steps to ensure that incarcer-
     5  ated individuals whose first language is not English are able to  under-
     6  stand,  participate  and  complete  substance abuse programs provided in
     7  correctional facilities. Such steps may include, but need not be limited
     8  to, increased employment of bilingual  substance  abuse  counselors  and
     9  program  staff,  translation  of program content and materials, targeted
    10  programs for non-English speaking  incarcerated  individuals  and  other
    11  strategies  determined  by  the  commissioner  in  consultation with the
    12  office of addiction services and supports.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00608-01-3