Bill Text: NY A00205 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to inmates on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-25 - reported referred to ways and means [A00205 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00205-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          205
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ROZIC, O'DONNELL, CAHILL, CAMARA, COOK, DAVILA,
         GOTTFRIED, HOOPER, ORTIZ, RIVERA, SKARTADOS -- Multi-Sponsored  by  --
         M.  of  A.  BRENNAN,  GLICK,  ROBERTS -- 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    S 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
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01729-02-5
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    1  AMENITY PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN
    2  OF THIS CHAPTER.
    3    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    4  it shall have become a law.