Bill Text: NY S01334 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1334 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the prohibition of double-bunked housing in correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-06-14 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S01334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01334-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1334
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, GRIFFO, HELMING -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the prohibition of
          double-bunked housing in correctional facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 607
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 607. Prohibition of double-bunked housing. 1. For purposes  of  this
     4  section  "double-bunked housing" shall mean the practice of inmate hous-
     5  ing where bunk beds are used in a dormitory setting, with inmates resid-
     6  ing in an open space and sleeping on bunk beds.
     7    2. Upon the effective date of this section, the department is  prohib-
     8  ited  from  housing  inmates  using  double-bunked  housing practices in
     9  correctional facilities. Any inmates housed in such double-bunked  hous-
    10  ing  on the effective date of this section shall be moved to other hous-
    11  ing accommodations provided that such accommodations are not located  in
    12  a  more  restrictive housing unit or correctional facility unless other-
    13  wise appropriate.
    14    3. The department is authorized to promulgate or repeal any rules  and
    15  regulations necessary to facilitate the implementation of this section.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02991-01-9