Directs the commission of corrections and community supervision to establish an annual heat mitigation plan; directs the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9169--A
Cal. No. 434
IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, RAGA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Correction -- reported from committee,
advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining
its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing an annu-
al heat mitigation plan; and directing the extreme heat action plan
work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze
the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people
working in prisons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to
4 establish and maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to ensure incar-
5 cerated individuals and correctional facility staff have options avail-
6 able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such
7 plan shall include, to the extent possible:
8 (i) access to industrial fans, water, ice, and additional access to
9 showers;
10 (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin-
11 ning of summer;
12 (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas;
13 (iv) maintaining a list of incarcerated individuals and correctional
14 facility staff with medical conditions that make them more susceptible
15 to heat and monitor their well-being;
16 (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and
17 (vi) providing shade on exercise yards.
18 (b) The commissioner, as part of such heat mitigation plan, shall
19 develop a timeline to establish cooling stations and provide evaporative
20 fans to each facility.
21 § 2. The extreme heat action plan work group of the department of
22 environmental conservation shall analyze the impact of extreme heat on
23 incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons and articulate
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 their specific needs in such work group's long-term heat adaptation
2 plan.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
4 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
5 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
6 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
7 on or before such effective date.
