Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5310
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BLAKE, CAHILL, COOK, DAVILA, GOTTFRIED,
O'DONNELL, ORTIZ, RIVERA, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing vocational
training to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for
the provision of hot water to correctional facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137 of the correction law, as
2 added by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
3 4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in a
4 correctional facility, each inmate shall be given sleeping accommo-
5 dations in a separate cell or room, provided, however, that nothing
6 herein contained shall be construed so as to limit the right of the
7 department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where necessary or
8 where appropriate to a program of treatment. To the extent practicable,
9 such cells, rooms and dormitories shall be plumbed to provide inmates
10 hot water.
11 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by
12 chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
13 2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of
14 supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political
15 subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and
16 controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for
17 the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one,
18 and partly for the other of such purposes. Where practicable, inmates
19 shall be provided vocational training to install solar hot water systems
20 to provide hot water to cells, rooms and dormitories lacking in such
21 amenity pursuant to subdivision four of section one hundred thirty-seven
22 of this chapter.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
24 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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