Relates to the promulgation of rules and regulations establishing minimum standards for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facilities; allows counties flexibility in establishing minimum staffing ratios.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7505
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 21, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the minimum standards
for the construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the
care, custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and
other correctional programs for all persons confined in such facili-
ties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 45 of the correction law, as
2 amended by section 7 of part Q of chapter 56 of the laws of 2009, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 6. Promulgate rules and regulations in coordination with local jail
5 administrators, county chief elected or appointed official and county
6 sheriffs establishing minimum standards for the review of the
7 construction or improvement of correctional facilities and the care,
8 custody, correction, treatment, supervision, discipline, and other
9 correctional programs for all persons confined in correctional facili-
10 ties. Such rules and regulations shall allow counties the flexibility in
11 establishing minimum staffing ratios and such rules and regulations
12 shall be forwarded to the governor, the temporary president of the
13 senate and the speaker of the assembly no later than January first,
14 nineteen hundred seventy-six and annually thereafter.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11714-01-5
