Bill Text: NY A09593 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Mandates that college-level courses be offered at all state-operated correctional facilities with female incarcerated individuals in the state in coordination with the state university of New York, the city university of New York and the independent colleges of New York by 2021 and offered at all other state-operated correctional facilities by 2023.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-27 - referred to correction [A09593 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09593-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9593

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 27, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. ARROYO, CRUZ -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to offering college-lev-
          el courses at all state-operated correctional facilities in the state

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  136 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section,  the  commis-
     4  sioner,  in  cooperation with the commissioner of education and director
     5  of education, shall collaborate with the board of trustees of the  state
     6  university  of New York, the board of trustees of the city university of
     7  New York and  the  council  of  governing  boards  for  the  independent
     8  colleges  of New York to implement the offering of college-level courses
     9  at all state-operated correctional facilities where female  incarcerated
    10  individuals  are confined on or before January first, two thousand twen-
    11  ty-one. Such courses shall be offered at all state-operated correctional
    12  facilities on or before January first, two thousand twenty-three.   Such
    13  courses  shall apply towards the completion of a college degree program.
    14  The department shall ensure that all college-level course offerings  are
    15  uniform  among  all  the  state-operated  correctional facilities in the
    16  state pursuant to section one hundred fourteen of this article.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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