Bill Text: NY A09127 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9127 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-08 - reported referred to ways and means [A09127 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09127-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9127
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 19, 2014
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing  vocational
         training to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for
         the provision of hot water to correctional facilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137  of  the  correction  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  476  of  the  laws  of 1970, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in  a
    5  correctional  facility,  each  inmate  shall  be given sleeping accommo-
    6  dations in a separate cell or  room,  provided,  however,  that  nothing
    7  herein  contained  shall  be  construed  so as to limit the right of the
    8  department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where  necessary  or
    9  where  appropriate to a program of treatment. TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE,
   10  SUCH CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES SHALL BE PLUMBED  TO  PROVIDE  INMATES
   11  HOT WATER.
   12    S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by
   13  chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
   14    2.  Such  labor  shall  be either for the purpose of the production of
   15  supplies for said institutions, or  for  the  state,  or  any  political
   16  subdivision  thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and
   17  controlled by the state, or any political subdivision  thereof;  or  for
   18  the  purpose  of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one,
   19  and partly for the other of such purposes.  WHERE  PRACTICABLE,  INMATES
   20  SHALL BE PROVIDED VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO INSTALL SOLAR HOT WATER SYSTEMS
   21  TO  PROVIDE  HOT  WATER  TO CELLS, ROOMS AND DORMITORIES LACKING IN SUCH
   22  AMENITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN
   23  OF THIS CHAPTER.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   25  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14280-01-4