A 5535: Authorizes vocational training, where practicable, to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facilities.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5535 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, SIMON, CHAN- DLER-WATERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing vocational training to incarcerated individuals on the installation of solar hot water systems for the provision of hot water to correctional facili- ties The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 137 of the correction law, as 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 4. Whenever there shall be a sufficient number of cells or rooms in a 5 correctional facility, each incarcerated individual shall be given 6 sleeping accommodations in a separate cell or room, provided, however, 7 that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to limit the 8 right of the department to utilize dormitory-type accommodations where 9 necessary or where appropriate to a program of treatment. To the extent 10 practicable, such cells, rooms and dormitories shall be plumbed to 11 provide incarcerated individuals hot water. 12 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 171 of the correction law, as amended by 13 chapter 364 of the laws of 1983, is amended to read as follows: 14 2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of 15 supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political 16 subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and 17 controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for 18 the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one, 19 and partly for the other of such purposes. Where practicable, incarcer- 20 ated individuals shall be provided vocational training to install solar 21 hot water systems to provide hot water to cells, rooms and dormitories EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03995-01-5 
 A. 5535 2 1 lacking in such amenity pursuant to subdivision four of section one 2 hundred thirty-seven of this chapter. 3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law.