S 764: Relates to the commissioner of corrections and community supervision's heat mitigation plan for correctional facilities; provides findings regarding permanent cooling solutions shall be included.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 764 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the commissioner of corrections and community supervision's heat mitigation plan for correctional facilities 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 112 of the correction law, as 2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the correction law 3 relating to establishing an annual heat mitigation plan; and directing 4 the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environ- 5 mental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerat- 6 ed individuals and people working in prisons, as proposed in legislative 7 bills numbers S. 7781-A and A. 9169-A, is amended to read as follows: 8 6. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to 9 establish and maintain an annual heat mitigation plan to ensure incar- 10 cerated individuals and correctional facility staff have options avail- 11 able to stay cool, hydrated and safe during high heat temperatures. Such 12 plan shall include, to the extent possible: 13 (i) access to industrial fans, water, ice, and additional access to 14 showers; 15 (ii) commissaries fully stocked with personal fans prior to the begin- 16 ning of summer; 17 (iii) monitoring temperatures in housing, program and industry areas; 18 (iv) maintaining a list of incarcerated individuals and correctional 19 facility staff [with] who have medical conditions that make them more 20 susceptible to heat and monitor their well-being; 21 (v) increased rounds and wellness checks; and 22 (vi) providing shade on exercise yards if consistent with the facili- 23 ty's safety and security protocols. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02905-01-5 
 S. 764 2 1 (b) The commissioner, as part of such heat mitigation plan, shall 2 [develop a timeline to establish] evaluate the financial and operational 3 feasibility of establishing cooling stations [and provide evaporative 4 fans to] and a permanent sustainable cooling solution at each facility, 5 provided that upon a determination or finding that a permanent sustaina- 6 ble cooling solution is feasible in each facility, the commissioner 7 shall develop a timeline to implement the findings of such evaluation. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 9 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the correction law 10 relating to establishing an annual heat mitigation plan; and directing 11 the extreme heat action plan work group of the department of environ- 12 mental conservation to analyze the impact of extreme heat on incarcerat- 13 ed individuals and people working in prisons, as proposed in legislative 14 bills numbers S. 7781-A and A. 9169-A, takes effect.