Bill Text: NY S08028 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the prohibition of double-bunked housing in correctional facilities.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - referred to correction [S08028 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08028-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8028--A IN SENATE March 20, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, CROCI, FUNKE, GRIFFO, HAMILTON, HELMING, JACOBS, LARKIN, LITTLE, RITCHIE, SAVINO, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD14701-03-8