New York A 6666: Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make facility water testing results accessible to the public, incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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6666--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Correction in accord-
ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
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 8 to read as follows:
3 8. The commissioner shall make correctional facility water testing
4 results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals
5 and correctional facility staff in such facilities and shall make such
6 water testing results available to the public on the website of the
7 department.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08890-02-6