Bill Text: NY A01314 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits sale of tobacco products in the commissaries or canteens of correctional facilities and requires a rule to prohibit possession of tobacco by an inmate.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to correction [A01314 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01314-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1314
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    January 9, 2015
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       Introduced  by M. of A. LAVINE, MILLER, CROUCH -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  banning  tobacco
         products from correctional facilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 487
    2  of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S 26. Establishment of commissaries or canteens in correctional insti-
    4  tutions. The commissioner may authorize the head of any  institution  in
    5  the  department  to establish a commissary or a canteen in such institu-
    6  tion for the use and benefit of inmates. The moneys received by the head
    7  of the institution as profits  from  the  sales  of  the  commissary  or
    8  canteen  shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the commis-
    9  sary or canteen fund and such  funds  shall  be  used  for  the  general
   10  purposes  of the institution subject to the provisions of section fifty-
   11  three of the state finance law.  TOBACCO PRODUCTS SHALL NOT BE  SOLD  OR
   12  DISTRIBUTED  FROM  ANY  COMMISSARY  OR CANTEEN IN SUCH INSTITUTIONS. THE
   13  COMMISSIONER SHALL AMEND RULE 113.9 OF SECTION 270.2  OF  THE  NEW  YORK
   14  CODES,  RULES  AND REGULATIONS TO PROHIBIT THE POSSESSION OF ANY TOBACCO
   15  PRODUCTS BY AN INMATE.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   17  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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