Bill Text: NY S01833 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish a staffing plan for all uniformed and non-uniformed employees; further requires adequate staffing at correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-07 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S01833 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01833-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1833--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
          Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favor-
          ably  from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to adequate staffing at
          correctional facilities
          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, as amended by section 19
     2  of  subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    § 112. Powers and duties  of  commissioner  relating  to  correctional
     5  facilities   and   community   supervision.   1.  The  commissioner  [of
     6  corrections and community supervision] shall have  the  superintendence,
     7  management  and control of the correctional facilities in the department
     8  and of the inmates confined therein, and of all matters relating to  the
     9  government, discipline, policing, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof.
    10  He or she shall have the responsibility to ensure that adequate staffing
    11  exists  at  every correctional facility pursuant to subdivision three of
    12  this section. He or she shall have the power and it shall be his or  her
    13  duty to inquire into all matters connected with said correctional facil-
    14  ities.  He or she shall make such rules and regulations, not in conflict
    15  with the statutes of this state, for the government of the officers  and
    16  other  employees  of  the department assigned to said facilities, and in
    17  regard to the duties to be performed by them, and for the government and
    18  discipline of each correctional facility, as he or she may deem  proper,
    19  and  shall cause such rules and regulations to be recorded by the super-
    20  intendent of the facility, and a copy thereof to be  furnished  to  each
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04710-02-6