Bill Text: NY S05468 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a commission on prison education to study and develop a plan for improving education in state prisons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2530 [S05468 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05468-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5468

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law,  in relation to establishing a
          commission on improving education in state prisons

          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 49 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  49.  Commission  on prison education. There is hereby established a
     4  commission on prison education comprised of nine members who shall study
     5  and develop a plan for improving education in the state  prison  system.
     6  The  commission  on  prison education shall consider and investigate the
     7  following factors when determining education improvements: the impact on
     8  an inmate's employment  opportunities  upon  release  from  prison,  the
     9  impact  on  an inmate's reintegration into society and the effectiveness
    10  in reducing recidivism. Appointments to the task force shall be made  as
    11  follows:  three by the governor; two by the speaker of the assembly; one
    12  by the minority leader of the assembly; two by the  temporary  president
    13  of  the senate and one by the minority leader of the senate. The commis-
    14  sion on prison education shall issue a report within  ten  months  after
    15  the effective date of this section.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00309-01-1