Bill Text: NY S00731 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 731 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00731 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           731
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime
          and 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 and Albany to correctional  facilities,
     8  as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning transportation
     9  shall  be posted on the department's public website, and shall be avail-
    10  able from the telephone  number  designated,  pursuant  to  section  one
    11  hundred  thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available transporta-
    12  tion shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon transfer to  a
    13  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.
                                                                   LBD03542-01-9