Bill Text: NY S07281 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the effective date of a chapter of 2017 relating to rehabilitation programs for female inmates to require that female inmates are provided an array of programs comparable to those provided to male inmates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-07 - SIGNED CHAP.372 [S07281 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07281-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7281
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the correction law and a chapter of  the  laws  of  2017
          amending  the  correction  law  relating  to  assuring  rehabilitation
          programs for female inmates are equivalent to programs  afforded  male
          inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3498 and A. 2534,
          in relation to making certain technical corrections thereto
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 114 of the correction law, as added by a chapter of
     2  the laws of 2017 amending the correction law relating to assuring  reha-
     3  bilitation  programs  for  female  inmates  are  equivalent  to programs
     4  afforded male inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  3498
     5  and A. 2534, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 114.  Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those
     7  afforded  men.    [In any state correctional facility in which women are
     8  detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief  administrative
     9  officer  of  such  facility to assure that such women be provided equiv-
    10  alent programs of rehabilitation, including but  not  limited  to  voca-
    11  tional,  academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made
    12  therefor, as are provided to male  inmates  of  correctional  facilities
    13  elsewhere  in  the  state.]  It shall be the duty of the commissioner to
    14  assure an array  of  rehabilitation  programs  are  provided  among  the
    15  correctional facilities in which female inmates are confined, within the
    16  appropriations  made  therefor, including but not limited to vocational,
    17  academic and industrial programs, which are comparable to  the  programs
    18  provided to male inmates during the course of their incarceration.
    19    §  2.  Section  2  of  a  chapter  of  the  laws  of 2017 amending the
    20  correction law relating to assuring rehabilitation programs  for  female
    21  inmates are equivalent to programs afforded male inmates, as proposed in
    22  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  3498 and A. 2534, is amended to read as
    23  follows:
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect [on the sixtieth day] one  year  after
    25  it   shall  have  become  a  law;  provided  that  the  commissioner  of
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05038-03-7
        S. 7281                             2
     1  corrections and community supervision is authorized  to  promulgate  any
     2  and  all  rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to
     3  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date on or  before
     4  such effective date.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section one
     6  of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
     7  a  chapter  of  the laws of 2017 amending the correction law relating to
     8  assuring rehabilitation programs for female inmates  are  equivalent  to
     9  programs afforded male inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
    10  S. 3498 and A. 2534, takes effect.