Bill Text: NY S03473 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for market value; and provides that money placed into an inmate's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03473 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03473-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3473
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 7, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS,  BAILEY,  MYRIE  -- 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 commissaries or
          canteens in correctional institutions
          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    §  26.  [Establishment  of  commissaries]  Commissaries or canteens in
     4  correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
     5  any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
     6  in such institution for the use and benefit of inmates.   Items sold  at
     7  the  commissary  or canteen shall be sold at the current market rate for
     8  such items, as based upon the cost of similar items for sale in the same
     9  region as the correctional facility. The moneys received by the head  of
    10  the  institution  as profits from the sales of the commissary or canteen
    11  shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as  the  commissary  or
    12  canteen  fund  and  such funds shall be used for the general purposes of
    13  the institution subject to the provisions of section fifty-three of  the
    14  state finance law.
    15    2.  Money  placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund of an
    16  inmate shall only be used by the inmate for purchases at such commissary
    17  or canteen. No funds shall be removed from  an  inmate's  commissary  or
    18  canteen account or fund for a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason
    19  other than a purchase at such commissary or canteen.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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