Bill Text: NY A04881 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bi-monthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-08 - referred to correction [A04881 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04881-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4881 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DE LA ROSA, DICKENS, GOTTFRIED, WEPRIN, COLTON, WALKER, REYES, COOK, AUBRY, HUNTER, BARRON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to available transporta- tion for correction facility visitation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the inmate visit- 4 ing program, the department shall provide transportation for visitors to 5 correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less than bimonthly, 6 at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided from the city 7 of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany to correctional 8 facilities, as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning 9 transportation shall be posted on the department's public website, and 10 shall be available from the telephone number designated, pursuant to 11 section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available 12 transportation shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon 13 transfer to a new correctional facility. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a 15 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08401-01-1