Bill Text: NY S02941 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a contraband and drug information hotline for state correctional facilities; defines terms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02941-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2941

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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 creating a contraband
          and drug information hotline

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 2 of the correction law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 35 to read as follows:
     3    35.  "Contraband"  means anything, which is capable of such use as may
     4  endanger the safety or security of a detention facility  or  any  person
     5  therein  which  shall  include, but not be limited to firearms and other
     6  dangerous weapons as defined in section 265.00 of the penal law, danger-
     7  ous instruments as defined in subdivision thirteen of section  10.00  of
     8  the  penal  law, destructive devices as defined in 26 USC § 5845 (f) and
     9  controlled substances as defined in section 220.00 of the penal law.
    10    § 2. Section 112 of the correction law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    11  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    12    6.  The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to facili-
    13  tate the implementation and operation of a  statewide,  toll-free  tele-
    14  phone  number, or hotline, to receive reports from callers providing any
    15  information related to the introduction of contraband or  possession  of
    16  contraband  in  a state correctional institution by inmates, visitors or
    17  staff members.  Such hotline shall receive  reports  of  allegations  of
    18  reportable  incidents  twenty-four  hours per day, seven days a week and
    19  shall accept anonymous calls.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04972-01-3