Bill Text: NY A01962 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities; allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to correction [A01962 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01962-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1962

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT, GALEF, FAHY, DICKENS, SIMON, MAGNARELLI,
          GOODELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
          for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
          care,  custody,  correction,  treatment,  supervision, discipline, and
          other correctional programs for all persons confined in  such  facili-
          ties

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  45  of  the  correction  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  7  of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    6. Promulgate rules and regulations in coordination  with  local  jail
     5  administrators,  county  chief  elected or appointed official and county
     6  sheriffs  establishing  minimum  standards  for  the   review   of   the
     7  construction  or  improvement  of  correctional facilities and the care,
     8  custody,  correction,  treatment,  supervision,  discipline,  and  other
     9  correctional  programs  for all persons confined in correctional facili-
    10  ties. Such rules and regulations shall allow counties the flexibility in
    11  establishing minimum staffing ratios  and  such  rules  and  regulations
    12  shall  be  forwarded  to  the  governor,  the temporary president of the
    13  senate and the speaker of the assembly  no  later  than  January  first,
    14  nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05264-01-1