Bill Text: NY A09169 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commission of corrections and community supervision to establish an annual heat mitigation plan; directs the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environmental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-07 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09169-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9169--A
                                                                Cal. No. 434

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, RAGA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and
          referred  to  the  Committee on Correction -- reported from committee,
          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its place on the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to establishing an annu-
          al  heat  mitigation  plan; and directing the extreme heat action plan
          work group of the department of environmental conservation to  analyze
          the  impact  of  extreme  heat  on incarcerated individuals and people
          working in prisons

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. (a) The commissioner shall  promulgate  rules  and  regulations  to
     4  establish  and  maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to ensure incar-
     5  cerated individuals and correctional facility staff have options  avail-
     6  able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such
     7  plan shall include, to the extent possible:
     8    (i)  access  to  industrial fans, water, ice, and additional access to
     9  showers;
    10    (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin-
    11  ning of summer;
    12    (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas;
    13    (iv) maintaining a list of incarcerated individuals  and  correctional
    14  facility  staff  with medical conditions that make them more susceptible
    15  to heat and monitor their well-being;
    16    (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and
    17    (vi) providing shade on exercise yards.
    18    (b) The commissioner, as part of  such  heat  mitigation  plan,  shall
    19  develop a timeline to establish cooling stations and provide evaporative
    20  fans to each facility.
    21    §  2.  The  extreme  heat  action plan work group of the department of
    22  environmental conservation shall analyze the impact of extreme  heat  on
    23  incarcerated  individuals  and  people working in prisons and articulate

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13122-03-4
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     1  their specific needs in such  work  group's  long-term  heat  adaptation
     2  plan.
     3    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     5  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     6  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
     7  on or before such effective date.