Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff

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Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff

Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.

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Official Summary Text

Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff
Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.

Current Bill Text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6390

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HARCKHAM, WEBB -- 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 requiring the commis-
          sioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water
          testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and
          correctional facility staff

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  MAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WATER TESTING
     4  RESULTS ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS AND CORRECTIONAL
     5  FACILITY STAFF IN SUCH FACILITIES AND  SHALL  MAKE  SUCH  WATER  TESTING
     6  RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON THE WEBSITE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
     7    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     8  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08890-01-5