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Assembly Bill A6666A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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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2025-A6666 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6390
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9611, S7937

2025-A6666 - Summary

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.

2025-A6666 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6666
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  MAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WATER TESTING
 RESULTS ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS AND CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITY STAFF IN SUCH FACILITIES AND  SHALL  MAKE  SUCH  WATER  TESTING
 RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC ON THE WEBSITE OF THE DEPARTMENT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08890-01-5

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2025-A6666A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6390
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9611, S7937

2025-A6666A (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A6666A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6666--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  MAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY WATER TESTING
 RESULTS ACCESSIBLE DIRECTLY, UPON REQUEST, TO  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS
 AND  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY STAFF IN SUCH FACILITIES AND SHALL MAKE SUCH
 WATER TESTING RESULTS AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC  ON  THE  WEBSITE  OF  THE
 DEPARTMENT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08890-02-6

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