Bill Text: NY A03120 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3120 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires inmate sexual harassment complaints made against department employees to be investigated by the attorney general and makes the findings and recommendations of the attorney general final and binding on the part of the department.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A03120 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03120-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3120
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW, GALEF -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the  Committee
          on Correction
        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the investigation of
          sexual harassment complaints made by inmates
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  139 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or rule to the contrary,
     4  any grievance made by an individual in the  custody  of  the  department
     5  alleging  sexual  harassment  by  an employee of the department shall be
     6  investigated by the attorney general. The findings  and  recommendations
     7  of the attorney general shall be final and the department shall take the
     8  necessary  and required actions to implement such findings and recommen-
     9  dations.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06548-01-9