Bill Text: NY S07281 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7281 IN SENATE January 5, 2018 ___________ 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 are8detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief administrative9officer of such facility to assure that such women be provided equiv-10alent programs of rehabilitation, including but not limited to voca-11tional, academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made12therefor, as are provided to male inmates of correctional facilities13elsewhere 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. LBD05038-03-7S. 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.