Bill Text: NY S04160 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows certain additional privileges to inmates when visitation is suspended for any reason.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04160 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04160-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4160--B
            Cal. No. 1013

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 2, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from
          said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance  --  reported
          favorably  from  said  committee,  ordered to first and second report,
          ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered  reprinted,  retaining
          its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction law, in relation to allowing certain
          additional privileges to inmates when visitation is suspended for  any
          reason

          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. Suspension of visitation privileges. 1.  Notwithstanding  any
     4  other  provision  of law, in the event that the visitation of inmates is
     5  suspended, for at least seven consecutive days, due to a declaration  of
     6  a  state of emergency by the governor, a local official or for any other
     7  reason, each inmate in a correctional  facility  shall  be  allowed  and
     8  shall receive, in addition to any other privilege:
     9    (a) seven free stamps per week;
    10    (b) two free secure messages per week via electronic tablet; and
    11    (c) two free phone calls per week.
    12    2.  The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations
    13  necessary for the implementation of this section.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08721-03-1