Bill Text: NY A10173 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the prohibition of double-bunked housing in correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-8)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-22 - print number 10173a [A10173 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10173-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10173--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 22, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. JONES, D'URSO, ABBATE, TAYLOR, RIVERA, LUPARDO,
          GIGLIO, PALMESANO, OAKS,  JENNE,  GOTTFRIED,  COOK,  SKOUFIS,  ARROYO,
          WALSH,  WEPRIN,  BRINDISI,  BOHEN  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A.
          BARCLAY, HAWLEY  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the prohibition of
          double-bunked housing in correctional facilities
          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 607
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 607. Prohibition of double-bunked housing. 1. For purposes  of  this
     4  section  "double-bunked housing" shall mean the practice of inmate hous-
     5  ing where bunk beds are used in a dormitory setting, with inmates resid-
     6  ing in an open space and sleeping on bunk beds.
     7    2. Upon the effective date of this section, the department is  prohib-
     8  ited  from  housing  inmates  using  double-bunked  housing practices in
     9  correctional facilities. Any inmates housed in such double-bunked  hous-
    10  ing  on the effective date of this section shall be moved to other hous-
    11  ing accommodations provided that such accommodations are not located  in
    12  a  more  restrictive housing unit or correctional facility unless other-
    13  wise appropriate.
    14    3. The department is authorized to promulgate or repeal any rules  and
    15  regulations necessary to facilitate the implementation of this section.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14701-02-8