Amd §114, Cor L; amd §2, Chap of 2017 (as proposed in S. 3498 and A. 2534)
Amends the effective date of a chapter of 2017 relating to rehabilitation programs for female inmates to require that female inmates are provided an array of programs comparable to those provided to male inmates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8959
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law and a chapter of the laws of 2017
amending the correction law relating to assuring rehabilitation
programs for female inmates are equivalent to programs afforded male
inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3498 and A. 2534,
in relation to making certain technical corrections thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 114 of the correction law, as added by a chapter of
2 the laws of 2017 amending the correction law relating to assuring reha-
3 bilitation programs for female inmates are equivalent to programs
4 afforded male inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 3498
5 and A. 2534, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 114. Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those
7 afforded men. [In any state correctional facility in which women are
8 detained it shall be the duty of the warden or the chief administrative
9 officer of such facility to assure that such women be provided equiv-
10 alent programs of rehabilitation, including but not limited to voca-
11 tional, academic and industrial programs, within the appropriation made
12 therefor, as are provided to male inmates of correctional facilities
13 elsewhere in the state.] It shall be the duty of the commissioner to
14 assure an array of rehabilitation programs are provided among the
15 correctional facilities in which female inmates are confined, within the
16 appropriations made therefor, including but not limited to vocational,
17 academic and industrial programs, which are comparable to the programs
18 provided to male inmates during the course of their incarceration.
19 § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the
20 correction law relating to assuring rehabilitation programs for female
21 inmates are equivalent to programs afforded male inmates, as proposed in
22 legislative bills numbers S. 3498 and A. 2534, is amended to read as
23 follows:
24 § 2. This act shall take effect [on the sixtieth day] one year after
25 it shall have become a law; provided that the commissioner of
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 corrections and community supervision is authorized to promulgate any
2 and all rules and regulations and take any other measures necessary to
3 implement the provisions of this act on its effective date on or before
4 such effective date.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section one
6 of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
7 a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the correction law relating to
8 assuring rehabilitation programs for female inmates are equivalent to
9 programs afforded male inmates, as proposed in legislative bills numbers
10 S. 3498 and A. 2534, takes effect.
