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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2211
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 20, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM, SALAZAR -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD05390-01-1