Bill Text: NY S07781 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2024-12-13 - approval memo.31 [S07781 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07781-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7781--A Cal. No. 369 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE December 1, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. HARCKHAM, JACKSON, ROLISON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in 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. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13122-04-4S. 7781--A 2 1 (b) The commissioner, as part of such heat mitigation plan, shall 2 develop a timeline to establish cooling stations and provide evaporative 3 fans to each facility. 4 § 2. The extreme heat action plan work group of the department of 5 environmental conservation shall analyze the impact of extreme heat on 6 incarcerated individuals and people working in prisons and articulate 7 their specific needs in such work group's long-term heat adaptation 8 plan. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 11 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 12 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 13 on or before such effective date.
