Cruz, Jaffee, Colton, Miller MG, De La Rosa, Taylor, Dickens, Crespo, Barron, Simon, Epstein,
Blake, Aubry, Pichardo, Cook, McDonough, Mosley
MLTSPNSR
Amd §136, Cor L
Mandates that college-level courses be offered at all state-operated correctional facilities with female incarcerated individuals in the state in coordination with the state university of New York, the city university of New York and the independent colleges of New York by 2021 and offered at all other state-operated correctional facilities by 2023.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9593
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. ARROYO, CRUZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to offering college-lev-
el courses at all state-operated correctional facilities in the state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 136 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the commis-
4 sioner, in cooperation with the commissioner of education and director
5 of education, shall collaborate with the board of trustees of the state
6 university of New York, the board of trustees of the city university of
7 New York and the council of governing boards for the independent
8 colleges of New York to implement the offering of college-level courses
9 at all state-operated correctional facilities where female incarcerated
10 individuals are confined on or before January first, two thousand twen-
11 ty-one. Such courses shall be offered at all state-operated correctional
12 facilities on or before January first, two thousand twenty-three. Such
13 courses shall apply towards the completion of a college degree program.
14 The department shall ensure that all college-level course offerings are
15 uniform among all the state-operated correctional facilities in the
16 state pursuant to section one hundred fourteen of this article.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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