Bill Text: NY S07781 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commission of corrections and community supervision to establish an annual heat mitigation plan; directs the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - AMENDED ON THIRD READING 7781A [S07781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07781-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7781--A
            Cal. No. 369

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 1, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, JACKSON, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
          recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction in
          accordance  with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
          committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
          reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place in the
          order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing an annu-
          al heat mitigation plan; and directing the extreme  heat  action  plan
          work  group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze
          the impact of extreme heat  on  incarcerated  individuals  and  people
          working in prisons

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

     1    Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  (a)  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate rules and regulations to
     4  establish and maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to  ensure  incar-
     5  cerated  individuals and correctional facility staff have options avail-
     6  able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such
     7  plan shall include, to the extent possible:
     8    (i) access to industrial fans, water, ice, and  additional  access  to
     9  showers;
    10    (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin-
    11  ning of summer;
    12    (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas;
    13    (iv)  maintaining  a list of incarcerated individuals and correctional
    14  facility staff with medical conditions that make them  more  susceptible
    15  to heat and monitor their well-being;
    16    (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and
    17    (vi) providing shade on exercise yards.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13122-04-4
        S. 7781--A                          2

     1    (b)  The  commissioner,  as  part  of such heat mitigation plan, shall
     2  develop a timeline to establish cooling stations and provide evaporative
     3  fans to each facility.
     4    §  2.  The  extreme  heat  action plan work group of the department of
     5  environmental conservation shall analyze the impact of extreme  heat  on
     6  incarcerated  individuals  and  people working in prisons and articulate
     7  their specific needs in such  work  group's  long-term  heat  adaptation
     8  plan.
     9    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    11  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    12  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    13  on or before such effective date.