File #: Int 1348-2016    Version: Name: Requiring the DOC to provide inmates vocational or educational programming.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services
On agenda: 11/16/2016
Enactment date: 9/8/2017 Law number: 2017/170
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to provide inmates vocational or educational programming
Sponsors: Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Daniel Dromm , Alan N. Maisel, Corey D. Johnson, Vincent J. Gentile, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Ritchie J. Torres, James Vacca, Donovan J. Richards, Rosie Mendez, Barry S. Grodenchik, Mathieu Eugene, Margaret S. Chin, Helen K. Rosenthal, Ben Kallos, Bill Perkins, I. Daneek Miller
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Summary: This bill requires the Department of Correction to provide vocational or educational training to inmates incarcerated for more than 10 days, with limited exceptions.
Attachments: 1. Legislative History Report, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1348-A, 3. Summary of Int. No. 1348, 4. Int. No. 1348, 5. November 16, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 6. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-16-16, 7. Committee Report 6/19/17, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/19/17, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/19/17, 10. Proposed Int. No. 1348-A - 8/18/17, 11. Committee Report 8/23/17, 12. Hearing Transcript 8/23/17, 13. August 24, 2017 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 14. Fiscal Impact Statement, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-24-17, 16. Int. No. 1348-A (FINAL), 17. Mayor's Letter, 18. Local Law 170, 19. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - August 24, 2017
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
9/8/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/8/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/8/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/24/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/24/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2017ARobert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/19/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/19/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/19/2017*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2016*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/16/2016*Robert E. Cornegy, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1348-A

 

By Council Members Cornegy, Dromm, Maisel, Johnson, Gentile, Rodriguez, Torres, Vacca, Richards, Mendez, Grodenchik, Eugene, Chin, Rosenthal, Kallos, Perkins and Miller

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to provide inmates vocational or educational programming

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Section 9-110 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows: 

§ 9-110 [Instruction] Education and programming.

The commissioner of correction may establish and maintain schools or classes for the instruction and training of the inmates of any institution under the commissioner's charge, and shall offer to all inmates incarcerated for more than 10 days a minimum of five hours per day of inmate programming or education, excluding weekends and holidays. Such programming or education may be provided by the department or by another provider, and need not be offered to inmates in punitive segregation, or to inmates who may be ineligible or unavailable for such programming or education, or where offering such programming or education would not be consistent with the safety of the inmate, staff or facility. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the department from offering such programming or education on the basis of incentive-based criteria developed by the department. For the purposes of this section, the term “inmate programming” has the same meaning as in section 9-144.

§ 2. This local law takes effect four months after it becomes law.

 

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