Bill Text: NY S06582 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the prohibition of double-bunked housing in correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-21 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06582 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06582-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6582 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 17, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules 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