Bill Text: NY S06747 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Establishes a New York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply with the requirements of the labor law and are for the purpose of promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community and not for the purpose of earnings or cost-savings which inure to the benefit the state or any private individual or corporation; prohibits the department of corrections and community supervision from unfairly attaching, garnishing or disbursing the funds of incarcerated individuals where such individuals have not requested disbursement; requires that all interest accumulated on incarcerated individuals' funds be credited to such individual's accounts; eliminates the preferred status of the department of corrections and community supervision regarding commodities and services furnished by the correctional industries program; repeals certain provisions of the state finance law relating to such preferred status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - PRINT NUMBER 6747A [S06747 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06747-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6747--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MYRIE,  BRISPORT,  CLEARE, GONZALEZ, MAY, PARKER,
          RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
          be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime  and  Correction
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
          in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  establishing  a  New
          York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply
          with  the  requirements  of  the  labor law and are for the purpose of
          promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry  and  reintegration  into
          the  community  and  not  for  the purpose of earnings or cost-savings
          which inure to the benefit of the state or any private  individual  or
          corporation,  prohibiting  the department of corrections and community
          supervision from unfairly  attaching,  garnishing  or  disbursing  the
          funds  of  incarcerated  individuals  where  such individuals have not
          requested disbursement, and requiring that all interest accumulated on
          incarcerated individuals'  funds  be  credited  to  such  individual's
          accounts;  and  to  repeal sections 184, 185 and 186 of the correction
          law relating thereto; to amend the state finance law and the  legisla-
          tive  law,  in  relation  to  eliminating  the preferred status of the
          department of corrections and community supervision regarding  commod-
          ities  and  services furnished by the correctional industries program;
          and to repeal certain provisions of the state finance law relating  to
          such preferred status

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short Title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "fairness and opportunity for incarcerated workers act".
     3    §  2. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby declares
     4  that:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00136-03-4

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     1    1. The current system of prison labor in New York is an  outgrowth  of
     2  the  legacy  of  slavery  and  has been allowed to continue in our state
     3  because of the exception created in the 13th Amendment  which  abolished
     4  slavery "except as punishment for a crime."
     5    2.  The  history  of  prison  labor  in New York can be traced back to
     6  Auburn Prison, where a cruel and dehumanizing system of forced labor was
     7  established 200 years ago with the goal of  creating  a  self-sustaining
     8  prison system.
     9    3.  Today, incarcerated individuals are forced to work under threat of
    10  punishment; hourly wages range from ten to sixty-five cents an hour  and
    11  have  not  increased  since  1993;  work  conditions are unsafe and have
    12  resulted in serious injury and even death; assigned  work  programs  are
    13  insufficient  to  provide  incarcerated  individuals with the skills and
    14  training necessary for successful rehabilitation,  reentry  and  reinte-
    15  gration into the community; and there currently exists no means by which
    16  incarcerated  individuals  can  organize  to work toward improving these
    17  conditions.
    18    4. The labor of incarcerated  individuals  has  been  used  to  create
    19  millions of dollars of profits and cost-savings for the state.
    20    5.  The  current system of prison labor is a violation of human rights
    21  and an affront to human dignity.
    22    6. The Fairness and Opportunity for Incarcerated Workers Act will: end
    23  forced labor; provide for a  minimum  wage,  healthy  and  safe  working
    24  conditions,  and  the  right  to  organize;  and  require  that all work
    25  programs provide incarcerated individuals with the skills  and  training
    26  necessary for successful rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration into
    27  the  community.  The  act  also establishes a labor board to ensure that
    28  these requirements are met; provides a means of redress  if  labor  laws
    29  are violated; and eliminates Corcraft's preferred vendor status.
    30    §  3.  Section  2  of  the correction law is amended by adding two new
    31  subdivisions 35 and 36 to read as follows:
    32    35. "Labor program" means any  job  or  work  whereby  the  department
    33  employs,  assigns  or  permits  an  incarcerated  individual  to provide
    34  services in any correctional facility, jail, reformatory or other insti-
    35  tution in the state and for which the minimum wage established by  arti-
    36  cle  nineteen of the labor law would have been due but for such individ-
    37  ual's condition of incarceration. Labor programs shall include, but  not
    38  be  limited  to,  Corcraft  prison  industry  jobs, facility needs jobs,
    39  kitchen, laundry, library,  groundskeeping  and  other  in-house  prison
    40  operation  and  upkeep  work, and any other work whereby the labor of an
    41  incarcerated individual is contracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to
    42  the state, any subdivision thereof, or any public, nonprofit or  private
    43  entity, shareholder or individual.
    44    36. "Labor board" means the prison labor board established pursuant to
    45  section 200-a of this chapter.
    46    §  4.  Section 116 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of
    47  the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    48    § 116. [incarcerated] Incarcerated individuals' funds. The  warden  or
    49  superintendent  of  each  of the institutions within the jurisdiction of
    50  the department of corrections and community supervision shall deposit at
    51  least once in each week to [his or her] such warden or  superintendent's
    52  credit  as  such warden, or superintendent, in such bank or banks as may
    53  be designated by the comptroller, all the moneys  received  by  [him  or
    54  her] such warden or superintendent as such warden, or superintendent, as
    55  incarcerated individuals' funds, and send to the comptroller and also to
    56  the commissioner monthly, a statement showing the amount so received and

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     1  deposited.  Such  statement of deposits shall be certified by the proper
     2  officer of the bank receiving such deposit or deposits. The  warden,  or
     3  superintendent,  shall also verify by [his or her] such warden or super-
     4  intendent's  affidavit  that  the  sum  so  deposited  is  all the money
     5  received by [him or her] such warden or superintendent  as  incarcerated
     6  individuals'  funds  during  the  month. Any bank in which such deposits
     7  shall be made shall, before receiving any such  deposits,  file  a  bond
     8  with  the  comptroller  of the state, subject to [his or her] such comp-
     9  troller's approval, for such sum as [he or she] such  comptroller  shall
    10  deem necessary. Upon a certificate of approval issued by the director of
    11  the  budget,  [pursuant  to the provisions of section fifty-three of the
    12  state finance law,] the amount of interest, if any,  heretofore  accrued
    13  and hereafter to accrue on moneys so deposited, heretofore and hereafter
    14  credited  to  the  warden,  or  superintendent, by the bank from time to
    15  time, shall be [available for expenditure by the warden, or  superinten-
    16  dent,  subject  to  the  direction of the commissioner, for welfare work
    17  among the incarcerated individuals in his or her custody. The withdrawal
    18  of moneys so deposited by such warden, or superintendent, as incarcerat-
    19  ed individuals' funds, including any  interest  so  credited,  shall  be
    20  subject  to  his  or  her check] designated as incarcerated individual's
    21  funds.  Each warden, or superintendent, shall  each  month  provide  the
    22  comptroller  and  also the commissioner with a record of all withdrawals
    23  from incarcerated individuals' funds. As used in this section, the  term
    24  "  incarcerated individuals' funds" means the funds in the possession of
    25  the incarcerated individual at the time of [his or her] such incarcerat-
    26  ed individual's admission into the institution, funds earned by [him  or
    27  her]  such  incarcerated  individual  as provided in section one hundred
    28  eighty-seven of this chapter, interest accrued on such  funds,  and  any
    29  other  funds received by [him or her] such incarcerated individual or on
    30  [his or her] such incarcerated individual's behalf  and  deposited  with
    31  such  warden  or  superintendent  in accordance with the rules and regu-
    32  lations of the commissioner. [Whenever the total unencumbered  value  of
    33  funds  in  an  incarcerated  individual's  account  exceeds ten thousand
    34  dollars, the superintendent shall give written notice to the  office  of
    35  victim services.]
    36    §  5.  The  correction law is amended by adding a new section 200-a to
    37  read as follows:
    38    § 200-a. Prison  labor  board;  organization,  functions,  powers  and
    39  duties.    1. There is hereby established within the department a prison
    40  labor board which, for the purposes of this section, shall  be  referred
    41  to as the "labor board".
    42    2. The labor board shall be comprised of the following members:
    43    (a) the commissioner or their designee;
    44    (b) the deputy commissioner for programs or their designee;
    45    (c) the commissioner of the department of labor or their designee;
    46    (d)  the  commissioner of the division of human rights or their desig-
    47  nee;
    48    (e) one formerly incarcerated individual who shall be appointed by the
    49  governor;
    50    (f) one formerly incarcerated individual who shall be appointed by the
    51  chairperson of the assembly committee on correction;
    52    (g) one formerly incarcerated individual who shall be appointed by the
    53  chairperson  of  the  senate  committee  on  crime  victims,  crime  and
    54  correction;
    55    (h)  three  currently  incarcerated individuals from the three correc-
    56  tional facilities with the largest prison populations and where Corcraft

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     1  industry is in operation.  Such individuals shall be appointed by  their
     2  facility's  inmate liaison committee and shall serve terms as defined by
     3  this section;
     4    (i)  one currently incarcerated individual from a women's correctional
     5  facility. Such individual shall be appointed by  her  facility's  inmate
     6  liaison committee and shall serve a term as defined by this section;
     7    (j)  two  members of nonprofit reentry programs for incarcerated indi-
     8  viduals, one of which serves formerly incarcerated  individuals  in  New
     9  York  city  and  one  of  which serves formerly incarcerated individuals
    10  statewide; and
    11    (k) two members representing organized labor who shall be appointed by
    12  the commissioner of the department of labor.
    13    3. The commissioner or their designee  and  the  commissioner  of  the
    14  department  of labor or their designee shall serve as co-chairpersons of
    15  the labor board.
    16    4. All individuals appointed to the  labor  board  shall  have  direct
    17  experience  with  or  demonstrated  knowledge  of prison labor programs,
    18  vocational and occupational training, or community reentry  and  reinte-
    19  gration programs.
    20    5. All members of the labor board shall be equal voting members.
    21    6.  All members of the labor board shall serve two years after initial
    22  appointment. After their initial terms, all members  shall  serve  four-
    23  year terms.
    24    7. Any member chosen to fill in a vacancy created, other than by expi-
    25  ration  of term, shall be appointed for the unexpired term of the member
    26  whom such chosen member is to succeed. Vacancies caused by  the  expira-
    27  tion of term or otherwise shall be filled in the same manner as original
    28  appointments.
    29    8.  The labor board members shall continue in office until the expira-
    30  tion of their terms and until their successors are appointed.
    31    9. No labor board member shall be appointed to  the  labor  board  for
    32  more than four consecutive terms.
    33    10.  Appointments  to the labor board shall be made within ninety days
    34  of the effective date of this section.
    35    11. All nongovernmental labor board members shall  be  reimbursed  for
    36  reasonable  and  necessary  expenses related to their official duties as
    37  members of the labor board.
    38    12. The labor board and each member thereof shall  have,  but  not  be
    39  limited to the following functions, duties, and powers:
    40    (a) to ensure that all labor programs are for the purpose of rehabili-
    41  tation  and community reentry and reintegration, and not for the purpose
    42  of creating profits or cost-savings which inure to the  benefit  of  the
    43  state, any subdivision thereof, the department of corrections and commu-
    44  nity supervision, any public or nonprofit entity, or any private entity,
    45  shareholder, or individual;
    46    (b) to develop and implement:
    47    (i)  uniform  rules, regulations, standards, processes, and best prac-
    48  tices that all labor programs shall meet; and
    49    (ii) uniform rules and regulations that govern the responsibilities of
    50  the department and the labor board in designing,  implementing,  approv-
    51  ing, and monitoring labor programs;
    52    (c)  to  approve existing labor programs that meet the requirements of
    53  this chapter, to make recommendations for labor programs  that  are  not
    54  approved, and to design and implement new labor programs;
    55    (d)  to ensure that labor programs are made available to all incarcer-
    56  ated individuals in an equitable and non-discriminatory manner,  and  to

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     1  prohibit the extraction of any form of payment or benefit as a condition
     2  of labor program assignment or duties; and
     3    (e) to investigate or take such other action as shall be deemed neces-
     4  sary  or  proper  with respect to any labor program that does not comply
     5  with the requirements of this article.
     6    13. Within one year of the enactment of this  section,  but  no  later
     7  than December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-five, and annually ther-
     8  eafter,  the  labor  board  shall  report to the governor, the temporary
     9  president of the senate, and the speaker of the assembly  the  following
    10  information for each correctional facility:
    11    (a)  all activities undertaken by the labor board including approvals,
    12  disapprovals, and investigations of current labor programs,  and  activ-
    13  ities related to the creation of new labor programs;
    14    (b)  a description of the purpose of each labor program, including the
    15  skills required to perform the  labor  and  the  training  or  education
    16  offered to attain such skills;
    17    (c)  the  wage  rate  assigned to each type of labor program including
    18  variations within the wage rate based on  seniority,  skills,  or  other
    19  criteria;
    20    (d) the physical and environmental hazards that exist for each type of
    21  labor program;
    22    (e) a datafile consisting of every incarcerated individual participat-
    23  ing  in a labor program in which each individual is de-identified but is
    24  assigned an ID unique to such datafile, which shall include the  follow-
    25  ing  information for each individual for each pay period during the past
    26  year:
    27    (i) for each incarcerated  individual,  the  wages  received  by  such
    28  incarcerated  individual  with  an  indication  of any amounts that were
    29  garnished or attached by the court or the department;
    30    (ii) for each incarcerated  individual,  the  total  number  of  hours
    31  worked and hourly wage rate assigned to the labor program;
    32    (iii) the race, ethnicity, gender, and age for each incarcerated indi-
    33  vidual participating in a labor program;
    34    (iv) any injuries reported by an incarcerated individual while partic-
    35  ipating  in  a  labor  program,  including  a  description of the injury
    36  received, or exacerbation of an  existing  injury,  the  specific  labor
    37  program  in  which  the injury was received, the treatment administered,
    38  and outcome of such treatment; and
    39    (v) any reports regarding an incarcerated individual's refusal to work
    40  or threatened refusal to work, reasons for such work  refusal,  and  the
    41  consequences  imposed  including,  but  not  limited  to,  placement  on
    42  keeplock status, negative behavior reports, fines,  or  loss  of  family
    43  visitation or other privileges.
    44    (f)  recommendations  for  further study to measure the success of the
    45  labor program regarding rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration  into
    46  the community.
    47    § 6. Section 154 of the correction law, as added by chapter 788 of the
    48  laws of 1968, subdivision 4 as amended by section 3 of part F of chapter
    49  62 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    50    § 154. Disposition of [Earnings] earnings.  The earnings of [a prison-
    51  er]  an incarcerated individual participating in a work release program,
    52  less any payroll deductions required or  authorized  by  law,  shall  be
    53  deposited  with  the  department  in a trust fund account. Such earnings
    54  shall not be subject to attachment or garnishment in the  hands  of  the
    55  department. The commissioner is authorized [to provide for disbursements
    56  from the trust fund account for any or all of the following purposes:

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     1    1.  Such  costs  incident to the prisoner's confinement as the commis-
     2  sioner deems appropriate and reasonable.
     3    2.  Such  costs  related to the prisoner's work release program as the
     4  commissioner deems appropriate and reasonable.
     5    3. Support of the prisoner's dependents.
     6    4. Payment of court fines, mandatory surcharge, sex offender registra-
     7  tion fee, DNA databank fee, restitution or reparation,  or  forfeitures]
     8  and shall approve requests by incarcerated individuals for the disburse-
     9  ment  of  their earnings for commissary purchases, aid to dependents, or
    10  any other lawful purposes.  The balance of such earnings, if any,  after
    11  disbursements  for  any  of the foregoing purposes shall be paid [to the
    12  prisoner] by check issued by the department and payable to the incarcer-
    13  ated individual upon termination of [his] such incarcerated individual's
    14  imprisonment.
    15    § 7. Subdivision 1 of section 170 of the correction law, as amended by
    16  chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    17    1. The commissioner shall not, nor shall any other authority whatsoev-
    18  er, make any contract by which the labor or  time  of  any  incarcerated
    19  individual in any state or local correctional facility in this state, or
    20  the  product  or  profit  of [his or her] such incarcerated individual's
    21  work, shall be contracted, let,  farmed  out,  given  or  sold  to  [any
    22  person,  firm,  association or corporation; except that the incarcerated
    23  individuals in said correctional institutions  may  work  for,  and  the
    24  products  of  their  labor may be disposed of to, the state or any poli-
    25  tical subdivision thereof, any public institution owned or  managed  and
    26  controlled  by the state, or any political subdivision thereof, provided
    27  that no incarcerated individual shall be employed or assigned to  engage
    28  in  any  activity that involves obtaining access to, collecting or proc-
    29  essing social security account numbers of other individuals] the  state,
    30  any  subdivision  thereof,  the  department, or any public, nonprofit or
    31  private entity, shareholder, or individual unless such labor program  is
    32  in compliance with the requirements of this chapter.
    33    §  8.  Section 171 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 364 of
    34  the laws of 1983, the section heading and subdivision 1  as  amended  by
    35  chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    36    §  171. [Incarcerated individuals to be employed; products of labor of
    37  incarcerated individuals] Terms and conditions of labor programs. 1. The
    38  commissioner and the superintendents and officials of all penitentiaries
    39  in the state may not cause incarcerated individuals in the state correc-
    40  tional facilities and such penitentiaries [who  are  physically  capable
    41  thereof]  to  be  employed  for [not to exceed] more than eight hours of
    42  each day other than Sundays and public holidays.    Notwithstanding  any
    43  other  provision  of  this section, however, the commissioner and super-
    44  intendents of state  correctional  facilities  may  employ  incarcerated
    45  individuals  on  a  volunteer  basis  on  Sundays and public holidays in
    46  specialized areas of the facility, including  kitchen  areas,  vehicular
    47  garages,  rubbish  pickup  and  grounds maintenance, providing, however,
    48  that incarcerated individuals so employed shall be allowed  an  alterna-
    49  tive free day within the normal work week.
    50    2.  [Such  labor]  Labor programs shall be [either] for the purpose of
    51  [the production of supplies for said institutions, or for the state,  or
    52  any  political  subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned
    53  or managed and controlled by the state,  or  any  political  subdivision
    54  thereof;  or  for the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or
    55  partly for one, and partly for the other  of  such  purposes]  promoting
    56  successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community,

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     1  and  not for the purpose of creating profits or cost-savings which inure
     2  to the benefit of the state, any subdivision thereof, the department, or
     3  any public or nonprofit entity, private entity, shareholder or  individ-
     4  ual.
     5    3. All labor programs shall comply with the following terms and condi-
     6  tions:
     7    (a) No incarcerated individual shall be compelled, threatened, induced
     8  or  coerced to provide labor against such incarcerated individual's will
     9  by means of actual or threatened force, punishment, sexual harm,  or  by
    10  any  other  means reasonably likely to cause the incarcerated individual
    11  to believe that, if they do not provide such labor, that they or another
    12  person would suffer physical, emotional or mental harm, or other adverse
    13  consequences;
    14    (b) The wages paid to incarcerated individuals shall not be less  than
    15  the minimum wage established by article nineteen of the labor law;
    16    (c)  All  health  and  safety  protections  required to be provided to
    17  employees under federal and state labor law shall be provided to  incar-
    18  cerated individuals engaged in labor programs;
    19    (d)  All incarcerated individuals shall have the right to organize and
    20  collectively bargain; and
    21    (e) All incarcerated individuals shall be afforded an  equal  opportu-
    22  nity  to  participate in labor programs and the commissioner, the super-
    23  intendents and officials of all correctional facilities, jails, reforma-
    24  tories and other institutions shall make  all  efforts  to  ensure  that
    25  assignments  are  distributed  equitably and work is provided to all who
    26  request it.
    27    4. No incarcerated individual shall  be  discriminated  against  in  a
    28  labor program because of their age, race, creed, color, national origin,
    29  sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military status, sex,
    30  disability, predisposing genetic characteristics, familial status, mari-
    31  tal status, or status as a victim of domestic violence.
    32    5.  The  department  shall  not take any retaliatory action against an
    33  incarcerated individual, whether or not within the scope of the individ-
    34  ual's labor program duties, because such  individual  does  any  of  the
    35  following:
    36    (a) discloses, or threatens to disclose to a supervisor or to a public
    37  body  an activity, policy, or practice of the department that the incar-
    38  cerated individual reasonably believes is in violation of law, rule,  or
    39  regulation,  or  that  the  incarcerated  individual reasonably believes
    40  poses a substantial and specific danger to the public health or safety;
    41    (b) provides information to, or  testifies  before,  any  public  body
    42  conducting an investigation, hearing, or inquiry into any such activity,
    43  policy or practice by the department; or
    44    (c) objects to, or refuses to participate in, any such activity, poli-
    45  cy, or practice.
    46    6.  In  no  event  shall  an incarcerated individual be employed in an
    47  establishment which has a labor dispute.
    48    7. The department of labor shall exercise the  same  supervision  over
    49  conditions  of  employment for incarcerated individuals participating in
    50  labor programs as such department does over conditions of employment for
    51  non-incarcerated individuals.
    52    8. Any incarcerated individual alleging  a  violation  of  subdivision
    53  three,  four, or five of this section against any correctional facility,
    54  jail, reformatory, or other institution in the state shall have a  cause
    55  of  action  in  the  court  of  appropriate jurisdiction for damages and
    56  injunctive relief and such other remedies as may be appropriate.

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     1    9. Any incarcerated individual alleging  a  violation  of  subdivision
     2  three,  four  or five of this section against any officer or employee of
     3  any correctional facility, jail, reformatory, or  other  institution  in
     4  the  state  shall,  within  ten  years  after  the  acts alleged to have
     5  violated  this  section,  have  a cause of action for damages, including
     6  punitive damages, injunctive relief, and such other remedies as  may  be
     7  appropriate together with all reasonable attorney's fees and costs.
     8    10.  The immunity granted pursuant to subdivision one of section twen-
     9  ty-four of this chapter shall not extend to actions brought pursuant  to
    10  subdivision  three,  four,  or  five  of  this  section  and  any action
    11  commenced under this section may be brought in any  court  of  competent
    12  jurisdiction, including the supreme court.
    13    11.  A  violation of any of the provisions of subdivision three, four,
    14  or five of this section by any officer or employee of  any  correctional
    15  facility,  jail,  reformatory,  or  other institution in the state shall
    16  constitute sufficient cause for the removal of such employee by the duly
    17  constituted authority having jurisdiction.
    18    § 9. Subdivision 3 of section 177 of the correction law, as amended by
    19  chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    20    3. However, for the purpose of distributing, marketing or sale of  the
    21  whole  or  any  part  of the product of any correctional facility in the
    22  state, other than by said state correctional facilities, to the state or
    23  to any political subdivisions thereof  or  to  any  public  institutions
    24  owned or managed and controlled by the state, or by any political subdi-
    25  visions  thereof,  or to any public corporation, authority, or eleemosy-
    26  nary association funded in whole or in part by  any  federal,  state  or
    27  local funds, the sheriff of any such local correctional facility and the
    28  commissioner  of  corrections and community supervision may enter into a
    29  contract or contracts which may determine the  kinds  and  qualities  of
    30  articles  to  be produced by such institution and the method of distrib-
    31  ution and sale thereof by the commissioner of corrections and  community
    32  supervision  or under [his or her] such commissioner's direction, either
    33  in separate lots or in combination  with  the  products  of  other  such
    34  institutions  and with the products produced by incarcerated individuals
    35  in state correctional facilities. Such contracts may fix  and  determine
    36  any  and  all  terms and conditions for the disposition of such products
    37  and the disposition of proceeds of sale thereof and any  and  all  other
    38  terms  and  conditions  as may be agreed upon, not inconsistent with the
    39  constitution or this chapter. However, no such contract shall be  for  a
    40  period of more than one year and any prices fixed by such contract shall
    41  be [the prices established pursuant to section one hundred eighty-six of
    42  this  article for like articles or shall be] approved by the [department
    43  of corrections and community supervision] labor board and  the  director
    44  of  the  budget  on  presentation  to them of a copy of such contract or
    45  proposed contract, and provided further that any distribution or  diver-
    46  sification  of  industries  provided  for  by  such contract shall be in
    47  accordance with the rules and regulations established by the  department
    48  of  corrections  and  community supervision or shall be approved by such
    49  department on presentation to it of a copy of such contract or  proposed
    50  contract.
    51    §  10. Section 178 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of
    52  the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    53    § 178. Participation in work release and other  community  activities.
    54  Nothing contained in this article shall be construed or applied so as to
    55  prohibit private employment of incarcerated individuals in the community
    56  under  a  work  release  program,  or  a  residential treatment facility

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     1  program [formulated pursuant to any provision] provided such  employment
     2  complies with the requirements of this chapter.
     3    §  11.  Subdivisions  1  and  2  of section 183 of the correction law,
     4  subdivision 1 as amended by section 26 of subpart A of part C of chapter
     5  62 of the laws of 2011 and subdivision 2 as added by chapter 464 of  the
     6  laws of 1981, are amended to read as follows:
     7    1.  It  shall be the duty of the commissioner to distribute, among the
     8  correctional institutions under [his] such commissioner's  jurisdiction,
     9  the labor and industries assigned to said institutions, due regard being
    10  had  to  the  location  and convenience of the prisons, and of the other
    11  institutions to be supplied, the machinery now therein and the number of
    12  [prisoners] incarcerated  individuals,  in  order  to  secure  the  best
    13  service  and distribution of the labor, and to employ the [prisoners, so
    14  far as practicable,] incarcerated individuals in  occupations  in  which
    15  they will be most likely to obtain employment after their discharge from
    16  imprisonment.  The  commissioner  shall change or dispose of the present
    17  plants and machinery in said institutions now used in  industries  which
    18  shall be discontinued, and which can not be used in the industries here-
    19  after  to  be  carried on in said prisons, due effort to be made by full
    20  notice to probable purchasers, in case of sales of industries or machin-
    21  ery, to obtain the best price possible for the property sold,  and  good
    22  will of the business to be discontinued.
    23    2.  The  commissioner  shall  submit  reports, quarterly, to the labor
    24  board, the senate finance committee, the assembly ways and means commit-
    25  tee, and the director of the budget, regarding  industries  under  [his]
    26  such  commissioner's jurisdiction.   Such reports shall include, but not
    27  be limited to, the following:
    28    (a) all materials, machinery or other property procured, and the  cost
    29  thereof;
    30    (b) all other expenditures and the nature thereof;
    31    (c) all receipts and the nature thereof;
    32    (d)  all  inventory on hand at the opening and closing of the quarter;
    33  and
    34    (e) recommendations regarding the continuance of the program.
    35    § 12. Sections 184, 185 and 186 of the correction law are REPEALED.
    36    § 13. Section 187 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322  of
    37  the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
    38    §  187.  Earnings  of  incarcerated individuals. 1. Every incarcerated
    39  individual confined in a [state] correctional facility, [subject to  the
    40  rules  and  regulations  of  the department of corrections and community
    41  supervision, and every  incarcerated  individual  confined  in  a  local
    42  correctional  facility,  in  the discretion of the sheriff thereof, may]
    43  jail, reformatory, or other  institution  in  the  state  shall  receive
    44  compensation  for  work  performed during [his or her] such incarcerated
    45  individual's imprisonment.   Such compensation shall be  graded  by  the
    46  [department  of corrections and community supervision] labor board, with
    47  regard to  incarcerated  individuals  [employed  in  prison  industries]
    48  participating  in  labor programs, based upon the work performed by such
    49  [prisoners for prisoners confined in state correctional facilities,  and
    50  by  the  sheriffs  in all local correctional facilities for incarcerated
    51  individuals confined therein] incarcerated individual.
    52    2. The [department of corrections  and  community  supervision]  labor
    53  board  shall adopt rules, subject to the approval of the director of the
    54  budget, for establishing in all of the state correctional  facilities  a
    55  system  of compensation for the incarcerated individuals confined there-
    56  in. Such rules shall provide for the payment  of  compensation  to  each

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     1  incarcerated  individual[,  who]  and shall meet the requirements estab-
     2  lished by [the department  of  corrections  and  community  supervision,
     3  based  upon  the  work  performed by such incarcerated individuals] this
     4  chapter.
     5    3.  The  [department]  labor board shall prepare graded wage schedules
     6  for incarcerated individuals, which schedules shall be based upon  clas-
     7  sifications  according  to the value of work performed by each and in no
     8  instance shall be lower than the minimum  wage  established  by  article
     9  nineteen of the labor law. Such schedules [need not] shall be uniform in
    10  all  institutions.  [The  rules of the department shall also provide for
    11  the establishment of a credit system for  each  incarcerated  individual
    12  and  the manner in which such earnings shall be paid to the incarcerated
    13  individual or [his or her] such incarcerated individual's dependents  or
    14  held  in  trust for [him or her] such incarcerated individual until [his
    15  or her] such incarcerated individual's release.
    16    4. Any compensation paid to  an  incarcerated  individual  under  this
    17  article  shall be based on the work performed by such incarcerated indi-
    18  vidual. Compensation may be paid from moneys appropriated to the depart-
    19  ment and available to facilities for nonpersonal service.]
    20    § 14. Section 189 of the correction law, as amended by  chapter  3  of
    21  the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    22    §  189. Disposition of moneys paid to [prisoner] incarcerated individ-
    23  ual for [his] such incarcerated individual's labor. [1.]  The  earnings,
    24  including  any  accrued  interest, of an incarcerated individual partic-
    25  ipating in a labor program shall be held by the department  in  a  trust
    26  fund  account.  Such  earnings  shall  not  be  subject to attachment or
    27  garnishment in the hands of the department. The amount of such  [compen-
    28  sation] earnings to the credit of any [prisoner] incarcerated individual
    29  may be drawn by the [prisoner] incarcerated individual during [his] such
    30  incarcerated  individual's  imprisonment[,  only  upon  approval  of the
    31  commissioner to]  for aid to dependent  relatives  [of  such  prisoner],
    32  commissary  purchases,  or for [such] any other [purposes as the commis-
    33  sioner may approve. Such disbursement to aid a dependent relative  of  a
    34  prisoner  may  be  made  without  the  consent of such prisoner upon the
    35  certificate of the commissioner of social  services,  or  other  officer
    36  performing  the duties of a commissioner of welfare, of the community in
    37  which such dependent is located] lawful  purpose.  Any  balance  to  the
    38  credit  of  any  [prisoner] incarcerated individual at the time of [his]
    39  such incarcerated individual's conditional release as provided  by  this
    40  chapter  shall  be subject to the draft of the [prisoner in such amounts
    41  and at such times as the commissioner shall approve] incarcerated  indi-
    42  vidual; provided, however, that at the date of absolute discharge of any
    43  [prisoner]  incarcerated  individual  the  balance as aforesaid shall be
    44  paid to such [prisoner] incarcerated individual.
    45    § 15.  Section 189 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 738 of
    46  the laws of 1942, is amended to read as follows:
    47    § 189. Disposition of moneys paid to [prisoner] incarcerated  individ-
    48  ual  for  [his]  such  incarcerated  individual's labor.   The earnings,
    49  including any accrued interest, of an  incarcerated  individual  partic-
    50  ipating  in  a  labor program shall be held by the department in a trust
    51  fund account. Such earnings  shall  not  be  subject  to  attachment  or
    52  garnishment  in the hands of the department. The amount of such [compen-
    53  sation] earnings to the credit of any [prisoner] incarcerated individual
    54  may be drawn by the [prisoner] incarcerated individual during [his] such
    55  incarcerated individual's  imprisonment[,  only  upon  approval  of  the
    56  commissioner  to]  for  aid  to  dependent relatives [of such prisoner],

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     1  commissary purchases, or for [such] any other [purposes as  the  commis-
     2  sioner  may  approve. Such disbursement to aid a dependent relative of a
     3  prisoner may be made without the  consent  of  such  prisoner  upon  the
     4  certificate  of the commissioner of welfare, or other officer performing
     5  the duties of a commissioner of welfare, of the community in which  such
     6  dependent  is  located] lawful purpose. Any balance to the credit of any
     7  [prisoner] incarcerated individual at the time of [his] such incarcerat-
     8  ed individual's conditional release as provided by this chapter shall be
     9  subject to the draft of the [prisoner in such amounts and at such  times
    10  as  the  commissioner  shall approve] incarcerated individual; provided,
    11  however, that at the date of absolute discharge of any [prisoner] incar-
    12  cerated individual the balance as aforesaid shall be paid to such [pris-
    13  oner] incarcerated individual.
    14    § 16. Section 190 of the correction law, as amended by section  23  of
    15  subpart  B  of  part  C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
    16  read as follows:
    17    § 190. Monthly statement of receipts and expenditures for  industries.
    18  The  warden  of  each  of  the state prisons shall, on the first of each
    19  month, make a full detailed statement of  all  materials,  machinery  or
    20  other  property  procured,  and of the cost thereof, and of the expendi-
    21  tures made during the last preceding month for  manufacturing  purposes,
    22  together  with  a statement of all materials then on hand to be manufac-
    23  tured, or in process of manufacture, or manufactured, and of  machinery,
    24  fixtures or other appurtenances for the purpose of carrying on the labor
    25  of  the [prisoners] incarcerated individual, and the amount and kinds of
    26  work done, and the earnings realized, and the  total  amount  of  moneys
    27  coming  into  [his  or her] such incarcerated individual's hands as such
    28  warden during such last preceding month as the proceeds of the labor  of
    29  the [prisoners] incarcerated individuals at such prison, which statement
    30  shall  be  verified  by the oath of such warden to be just and true, and
    31  shall be by [him or her] such warden forwarded to the department and the
    32  labor board.
    33    § 17. Subdivisions 2, 3, 4, and 6 of section  200  of  the  correction
    34  law,  subdivisions  2, 3, and 4 as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of
    35  2021, and subdivision 6 as added by chapter 536 of the laws of 1974, are
    36  amended to read as follows:
    37    2. In lieu of the system of labor in correctional institutions  estab-
    38  lished  by  this  article,  the [commissioner may] labor board shall, in
    39  order to facilitate an incarcerated individual's eventual  reintegration
    40  into  society, establish for the incarcerated individuals in one or more
    41  state correctional institutions a  system  of  educational,  career  and
    42  industrial  training programs, and of incentive allowances for each such
    43  program.  Educational, career and industrial training programs shall not
    44  include any job or work that is part of a labor program  as  defined  by
    45  subdivision thirty-five of section two of this chapter.
    46    3.  For  each  institution  wherein  such  system  is  established the
    47  [commissioner] labor board shall prepare, and may at times revise, grad-
    48  ed incentive allowance schedules for the incarcerated individuals within
    49  each such program based upon the levels of performance  and  achievement
    50  by  an  incarcerated  individual  in a program to which [he or she] such
    51  incarcerated individual has been assigned.  Upon  the  approval  of  the
    52  director  of  the  budget  such  schedules  or  revisions thereof may be
    53  promulgated.
    54    4. The [commissioner] labor board shall also provide  for  the  estab-
    55  lishment  of  a  credit  system for each incarcerated individual and the
    56  manner in which incentive allowances shall be paid to  the  incarcerated

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     1  individual  or [his or her] such incarcerated individual's dependents or
     2  held in trust for [him or her] such incarcerated individual  until  [his
     3  or  her] such incarcerated individual's release. The amount of incentive
     4  allowed  to  the credit of any incarcerated individual shall be disposed
     5  of as provided by section one hundred eighty-nine of this article.
     6    6. [Except as otherwise provided by this section, those provisions  of
     7  law dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to
     8  industrial  training  in  state  correctional institutions including the
     9  disposition of services rendered and  products  produced  incidental  to
    10  such industrial training.] All health and safety protections required to
    11  be  provided  to  employees  under  federal and state labor law shall be
    12  provided to incarcerated individuals engaged in educational, career  and
    13  industrial training programs.
    14    §  18.    Paragraph  a  of  subdivision  2 of section 162 of the state
    15  finance law is REPEALED and paragraphs b, c, d, e, and f are  relettered
    16  paragraphs a, b, c, d, and e.
    17    §  19. Subdivision 3 of section 162 of the state finance law, as added
    18  by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, paragraphs a  and  b  as  amended  by
    19  section 164 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is
    20  amended to read as follows:
    21    3.  Public  list  of  services  and  commodities provided by preferred
    22  sources.
    23    a. By December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, the commis-
    24  sioner, in consultation  with  the  commissioners  of  [corrections  and
    25  community  supervision,] the office of children and family services, the
    26  office of temporary and disability assistance, mental health and  educa-
    27  tion,  shall  prepare  a  list  of all commodities and services that are
    28  available and are being provided as of said date, for purchase by  state
    29  agencies,  public  benefit  corporations  or political subdivisions from
    30  those  entities  accorded  preference  or  priority  status  under  this
    31  section. Such list may include references to catalogs and other descrip-
    32  tive  literature which are available directly from any provider accorded
    33  preferred status under this section. The commissioner  shall  make  this
    34  list  available  to  prospective vendors, state agencies, public benefit
    35  corporations, political subdivisions and other interested parties. Ther-
    36  eafter, new or substantially different commodities or services may  only
    37  be  made  available  by  preferred sources for purchase by more than one
    38  state agency, public benefit corporation or political subdivision  after
    39  addition to said list.
    40    b. After January first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, upon the applica-
    41  tion of [the commissioner of corrections and community supervision,] the
    42  commissioner  of  the office of children and family services, the office
    43  of temporary and  disability  assistance,  the  commissioner  of  mental
    44  health  or the commissioner of education, or a non-profit-making facili-
    45  tating agency designated by one of the said  commissioners  pursuant  to
    46  paragraph  e  of  subdivision  [six]  five  of  this  section, the state
    47  procurement council may recommend that the commissioner: (i) add commod-
    48  ities or services to, or (ii) in order to insure that such list reflects
    49  current production and/or  availability  of  commodities  and  services,
    50  delete  at  the  request  of a preferred source, commodities or services
    51  from, the list established by paragraph a of this subdivision. The coun-
    52  cil may make a non-binding  recommendation  to  the  relevant  preferred
    53  source to delete a commodity or service from such list. Additions may be
    54  made  only  for  new services or commodities, or for services or commod-
    55  ities that are substantially different from those reflected on said list
    56  for that provider. The decision to recommend the addition of services or

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     1  commodities shall be based upon a review of relevant factors  as  deter-
     2  mined  by  the  council  including costs and benefits to be derived from
     3  such addition and shall include an analysis by  the  office  of  general
     4  services  conducted  pursuant to subdivision [six] five of this section.
     5  Unless the state procurement council shall make a recommendation to  the
     6  commissioner  on  any such application within one hundred twenty days of
     7  receipt thereof, such application shall be deemed  recommended.  In  the
     8  event  that  the  state procurement council shall deny any such applica-
     9  tion, the commissioner or non-profit-making agency which submitted  such
    10  application  may,  within thirty days of such denial, appeal such denial
    11  to the commissioner of general services who shall review  all  materials
    12  submitted to the state procurement council with respect to such applica-
    13  tion  and  who  may  request  such further information or material as is
    14  deemed necessary. Within sixty days of receipt  of  all  information  or
    15  materials  deemed  necessary,  the  commissioner  shall render a written
    16  final decision on the application which shall be binding upon the appli-
    17  cant and upon the state procurement council.
    18    c. The list maintained by the office of general services  pursuant  to
    19  paragraph a of this subdivision shall be revised as necessary to reflect
    20  the  additions and deletions of commodities and services approved by the
    21  state procurement council.
    22    § 20. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision  4  of  section
    23  162 of the state finance law is REPEALED.
    24    §  21.  Subparagraphs  (i) and (ii) of paragraph a, subparagraphs (i),
    25  (ii) and (iii) of paragraph b  and  paragraph  c  of  subdivision  4  of
    26  section 162 of the state finance law, subparagraph (i) of paragraph a as
    27  amended  by section 164 of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the laws
    28  of 2011, subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a as amended by  chapter  91  of
    29  the  laws  of  2023, subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph b and para-
    30  graph c as added by chapter 83 of the laws  of  1995,  and  subparagraph
    31  (iii)  of  paragraph b of subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 430 of the
    32  laws of 1997, are amended to read as follows:
    33    (i) When commodities are available, in the form, function and  utility
    34  required by a state agency, public authority, commission, public benefit
    35  corporation or political subdivision, said commodities must be purchased
    36  first  from  [the  correctional  industries program of the department of
    37  corrections and community supervision] approved  charitable  non-profit-
    38  making agencies for the blind;
    39    (ii) When commodities are available, in the form, function and utility
    40  required  by,  a state agency or political subdivision or public benefit
    41  corporation having their own purchasing agency, and such commodities are
    42  not available pursuant to  subparagraph  (i)  of  this  paragraph,  said
    43  commodities  shall  then be purchased from [approved charitable non-pro-
    44  fit-making agencies for the blind] a qualified non-profit-making  agency
    45  for  other  severely  disabled  persons,  a qualified special employment
    46  program for mentally ill persons, or  a  qualified  veterans'  workshop,
    47  provided,  however,  the preferred source shall perform fifty percent or
    48  more of the work;
    49    (i) state agencies or political subdivisions or public benefit  corpo-
    50  rations having their own purchasing agency shall make reasonable efforts
    51  to  provide  a  notification  describing  their  requirements  to  those
    52  preferred sources, or to the facilitating entity identified in paragraph
    53  e of subdivision [six] five of this section, which provide the  required
    54  services  as  indicated  on  the  official public list maintained by the
    55  office of  general  services  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  of  this
    56  section;

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     1    (ii)  if, within ten days of the notification required by subparagraph
     2  (i) of this paragraph, one or more  preferred  sources  or  facilitating
     3  entities  identified  in  paragraph  e of subdivision [six] five of this
     4  section submit a notice of intent to provide the service  in  the  form,
     5  function  and  utility  required,  said  service  shall  be purchased in
     6  accordance with this section. If  more  than  one  preferred  source  or
     7  facilitating  entity identified in paragraph e of subdivision [six] five
     8  of this section submits notification of intent and  meets  the  require-
     9  ments,  costs  shall  be  the  determining factor for purchase among the
    10  preferred sources;
    11    (iii) if, within ten days of the notification required by subparagraph
    12  (i) of this paragraph, no preferred source or facilitating entity  iden-
    13  tified  in  paragraph  e of subdivision [six] five of this section indi-
    14  cates intent to provide the service, then the service shall be  procured
    15  in  accordance with section one hundred sixty-three of this article. If,
    16  after such period, a preferred source elects  to  bid  on  the  service,
    17  award  shall  be made in accordance with section one hundred sixty-three
    18  of this article or as otherwise provided by law.
    19    c. For the purposes of commodities and services  produced  by  special
    20  employment  programs  operated by facilities approved or operated by the
    21  office of mental health, facilities within the office of  mental  health
    22  shall be exempt from the requirements of subparagraph (i) of paragraph a
    23  of  this  subdivision.  When  such  requirements of the office of mental
    24  health cannot be met pursuant to subparagraph (ii) [or (iii)]  of  para-
    25  graph  a  of  this  subdivision, or paragraph b of this subdivision, the
    26  office of mental health may purchase commodities and services which  are
    27  competitive  in  price  and  comparable  in quality to those which could
    28  otherwise be obtained in accordance  with  this  article,  from  special
    29  employment  programs  operated by facilities within the office of mental
    30  health or other programs approved by the office of mental health.
    31    § 22. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 162
    32  of the state finance law, as added by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is
    33  amended to read as follows:
    34    (ii) When commodities are available, in the form, function and utility
    35  required by, a state agency or political subdivision or  public  benefit
    36  corporation having their own purchasing agency, and such commodities are
    37  not  available  pursuant  to  subparagraph  (i)  of this paragraph, said
    38  commodities shall then be purchased from [approved  charitable  non-pro-
    39  fit-making  agencies for the blind] a qualified non-profit-making agency
    40  for other severely disabled  persons,  a  qualified  special  employment
    41  program  for  mentally  ill  persons,  or a qualified veterans' workshop
    42  provided, however, the preferred source shall perform fifty  percent  or
    43  more of the work;
    44    §  23.  Subdivision  5  of  section  162  of  the state finance law is
    45  REPEALED and subdivisions 6, 7, 8, and 9 are renumbered subdivisions  5,
    46  6, 7 and 8.
    47    §  24.  The  opening  paragraph  and  paragraph  a of subdivision 5 of
    48  section 162 of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 565  of  the
    49  laws  of  2022 and as renumbered by section twenty-three of this act, is
    50  amended to read as follows:
    51    Prices charged by agencies for the blind, other disabled and veterans'
    52  entity, and the department of corrections and community supervision.
    53    a. [Except with respect to the correctional industries program of  the
    54  department of corrections and community supervision, it] It shall be the
    55  duty of the commissioner to determine, and from time to time review, the
    56  prices  of  all  commodities  and  to  approve the price of all services

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     1  provided by the department of corrections and community supervision  and
     2  preferred  sources  as  specified in this section offered to state agen-
     3  cies, political subdivisions or public benefit corporations having their
     4  own  purchasing  office.  The  commissioner's  price review and approval
     5  shall not be required for  any  purchases  below  one  hundred  thousand
     6  dollars.
     7    §  25. Subparagraph 9 of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 139-j
     8  of the state finance law, as amended by chapter 265 of the laws of 2013,
     9  is amended to read as follows:
    10    (9) Any communications relating to  a  governmental  procurement  made
    11  under  section one hundred sixty-two of the state finance law undertaken
    12  by (i) the non-profit-making agencies appointed pursuant to paragraph  e
    13  of  subdivision [six] five of section one hundred sixty-two of the state
    14  finance law by the commissioner of the office  of  children  and  family
    15  services,  the  commission  for the blind, or the commissioner of educa-
    16  tion, and (ii) the qualified charitable non-profit-making  agencies  for
    17  the blind, and qualified charitable non-profit-making agencies for other
    18  severely  disabled  persons  as identified in subdivision two of section
    19  one hundred sixty-two of  this  chapter;  provided,  however,  that  any
    20  communications  which  attempt to influence the issuance or terms of the
    21  specifications that serve as the basis for bid documents,  requests  for
    22  proposals,  invitations  for bids, or solicitations of proposals, or any
    23  other method for soliciting a response from offerers intending to result
    24  in a procurement contract with a state agency,  the  state  legislature,
    25  the  unified  court system, a municipal agency or local legislative body
    26  shall not be exempt from the provisions  of  this  paragraph;  provided,
    27  however,  that  nothing in this subdivision shall be construed as recog-
    28  nizing or creating any new rights, duties or responsibilities  or  abro-
    29  gating  any  existing  rights, duties or responsibilities of any govern-
    30  mental entity as  it  pertains  to  implementation  and  enforcement  of
    31  article  eleven  of  this  chapter or any other provision of law dealing
    32  with the governmental procurement process,  and  that  nothing  in  this
    33  subdivision  shall  be  interpreted  to limit the authority of a govern-
    34  mental entity involved in a government procurement  by  exercise  of  an
    35  oversight  function from providing information to offerers regarding the
    36  status of the review, oversight, or approval of a governmental  procure-
    37  ment  that has been submitted to or is under review by that governmental
    38  entity;
    39    § 26. Subparagraph (G) of the second undesignated paragraph of  subdi-
    40  vision  (c) of section 1-c of the legislative law, as amended by chapter
    41  265 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
    42    (G) Any activity relating  to  governmental  procurements  made  under
    43  section one hundred sixty-two of the state finance law undertaken by (i)
    44  the  non-profit-making  agencies  appointed  pursuant  to paragraph e of
    45  subdivision [six] five of section one hundred  sixty-two  of  the  state
    46  finance  law  by  the  commissioner of the office of children and family
    47  services, the commission for the blind, or the  commissioner  of  educa-
    48  tion,  and  (ii) the qualified charitable non-profit-making agencies for
    49  the blind, and qualified charitable non-profit-making agencies for other
    50  severely disabled persons as identified in subdivision  two  of  section
    51  one  hundred sixty-two of the state finance law; provided, however, that
    52  any attempt to influence the issuance or  terms  of  the  specifications
    53  that serve as the basis for bid documents, requests for proposals, invi-
    54  tations for bids, or solicitations of proposals, or any other method for
    55  soliciting a response from offerers intending to result in a procurement
    56  contract  with  a state agency, the state legislature, the unified court

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     1  system, a municipal agency or local legislative body shall not be exempt
     2  from the definition of "lobbying" or "lobbying  activities"  under  this
     3  subparagraph;
     4    §  27. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdi-
     5  vision, section or part of this act shall be adjudged by  any  court  of
     6  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
     7  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
     8  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
     9  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    10  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    11  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
    12  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    13    §  28. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    14  the amendments to section 189 of the  correction  law  made  by  section
    15  fourteen of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of
    16  such section pursuant to subdivision h of section 74 of chapter 3 of the
    17  laws  of 1995, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section
    18  fifteen of this act shall take effect; provided  further,  however  that
    19  the relettering of paragraphs d, e and f of subdivision 2 of section 162
    20  of  the state finance law made by section eighteen of this act shall not
    21  affect the expiration of such paragraphs  and  shall  expire  therewith;
    22  provided  further,  however, that the amendments to subparagraph (ii) of
    23  paragraph a of subdivision 4 of section 162 of  the  state  finance  law
    24  made  by  section twenty-one of this act shall be subject to the expira-
    25  tion and reversion of such subparagraph pursuant to section 2 of chapter
    26  91 of the laws of 2023, as amended, when upon such date  the  provisions
    27  of  section  twenty-two of this act shall take effect; provided further,
    28  that the amendments to section 139-j of the state finance  law  made  by
    29  section  twenty-five  of  this  act  shall not affect the repeal of such
    30  section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
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