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
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