Bill Text: NY A10641 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10641 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities and allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-17 - referred to correction [A10641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10641-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10641

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 17, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Barrett) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
          for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
          care, custody, correction,  treatment,  supervision,  discipline,  and
          other  correctional  programs for all persons confined in such facili-
          ties

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  45 of the correction law, as
     2  amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the  laws  of  2009,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    6.  Promulgate  rules  and regulations in coordination with local jail
     5  administrators, county chief elected or appointed  official  and  county
     6  sheriffs   establishing   minimum   standards  for  the  review  of  the
     7  construction or improvement of correctional  facilities  and  the  care,
     8  custody,  correction,  treatment,  supervision,  discipline,  and  other
     9  correctional programs for all persons confined in  correctional  facili-
    10  ties. Such rules and regulations shall allow counties the flexibility in
    11  establishing  minimum  staffing  ratios  and  such rules and regulations
    12  shall be forwarded to the  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
    13  senate  and  the  speaker  of  the assembly no later than January first,
    14  nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
    15    § 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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