What's happening
This bill requires correctional facilities to provide hot water and offer inmates vocational training to install solar hot water systems.
Why it matters
Qualified requirements. Both additions hinge on practicability, rather than imposing an unconditional obligation to retrofit every sleeping area or train every inmate.
Targeted upgrades. The correction law changes address cells, rooms and dormitories in New York correctional facilities, linking installation training to sleeping areas that lack hot water.
Implementation window. The bill would take effect 180 days after becoming law, adding plumbing and training provisions without changing the existing rules on separate cells or dormitory accommodations.
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Who cares
Inmates in sleeping areas without hot water
They would be the intended beneficiaries of the plumbing provision and potential participants in installation training.
Correctional facility administrators
They would need to determine where the plumbing upgrades and vocational training are practicable.
Correctional vocational instructors
The bill would add solar hot water installation to the training provided to inmates where practicable.
Correctional maintenance staff
The proposed plumbing and solar installation work would directly concern the facilities’ hot water infrastructure.
Headline styles
Add Prison Solar Installation Training
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
Assembly Member · Assembly District 25
9 Co-sponsors
1 Multi-sponsor
History
- Referred to correction
- Referred to correction
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Train Inmates in Solar Plumbing
In Senate Committee · Crime Victims, Crime And Correction · Sponsor Jamaal Bailey
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5310
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 8, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, BLAKE, CAHILL, COOK, DAVILA, GOTTFRIED, O'DONNELL, ORTIZ, RIVERA, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137 of the correction law, as added by chapter 476 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as follows:
4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in a correctional facility, each inmate shall be given sleeping accommodations in a separate cell or room, provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to limit the right of the department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where necessary or where appropriate to a program of treatment. To the extent practicable, such cells, rooms and dormitories shall be plumbed to provide inmates hot water.
§ 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows:
2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one, and partly for the other of such purposes. Where practicable, inmates shall be provided vocational training to install solar hot water systems to provide hot water to cells, rooms and dormitories lacking in such amenity pursuant to subdivision four of section one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00978-01-9
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