Bill Text: NY A05417 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations to permit and provide accommodation for inmate consultations with religious leaders one day per week and on religious holidays.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - held for consideration in correction [A05417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05417-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5417
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 18, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CASTELLI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Correction
       AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to directing the state
         commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations to permit
         and provide accommodation  for  inmate  consultations  with  religious
         leaders
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    3    9. PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO ASSURE THAT EACH  INMATE  IN  A
    4  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  IS  PERMITTED, AND REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS ARE
    5  MADE TO FACILITATE, CONSULTATION WITH SUCH  INMATE'S  RELIGIOUS  ADVISOR
    6  ONCE  PER WEEK ON A DAY WHICH IS DESIGNATED BY SUCH INMATE'S RELIGION AS
    7  A DAY OF WORSHIP AND ON RELIGIOUS HOLIDAYS OR  FESTIVALS  CELEBRATED  BY
    8  SUCH  INMATE'S  RELIGION,  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, CHRISTMAS, YOM
    9  KIPPUR, ROSH HASHANAH, ASH WEDNESDAY, HOLY THURSDAY, GOOD FRIDAY, ASCEN-
   10  SION THURSDAY, THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION, THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, THE
   11  FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, THE FIRST TWO DAYS OF  THE  SUCCOTH,
   12  SHEMINI  ATZARETH,  SIMCHAS TORAH, SHEVUOTH, PURIM, ORTHODOX HOLY THURS-
   13  DAY, ORTHODOX GOOD FRIDAY, FIRST TWO AND LAST TWO DAYS OF PASSOVER,  THE
   14  MUSLIM HOLIDAYS OF EID UL-FITR AND EID UL-ADHA, ASIAN LUNAR NEW YEAR AND
   15  THE  HINDU  FESTIVAL OF DIWALI ON THE DAY THAT LAKSHMI PUJA IS OBSERVED.
   16  REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO,
   17  PROVIDING  FOR THE INMATE'S CONSULTATION WITH A RELIGIOUS ADVISOR OF THE
   18  INMATE'S CHOOSING AT TIMES OUTSIDE OF THE USUAL HOURS DESIGNATED BY  THE
   19  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  FOR VISITATION WITH THE INMATES, SO LONG AS SUCH
   20  ACCOMMODATION DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A THREAT TO THE  SAFETY,  SECURITY  OR
   21  GOOD ORDER OF THE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR THE HEALTH OF ANY INDIVIDUAL.
   22    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD08516-01-1