Bill Text: NY A05942 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5942 (Prior Session Legislation)

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 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A05942 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05942-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5942
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 20, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DE LA ROSA  -- 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.
                                                                   LBD03542-03-9