Bill Text: NY A04482 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires incarcerated individual sexual harassment complaints made against department employees to be investigated by the attorney general; makes the findings and recommendations of the attorney general final and binding on the part of the department.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A04482 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04482-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4482 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the investigation of sexual harassment complaints made by incarcerated individuals 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. LBD09503-01-3
