Bill Text: NY S05693 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 and Albany.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-11 - PRINT NUMBER 5693A [S05693 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05693-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5693--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 26, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime
          and Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
          and  Correction  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        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 follow:
     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.
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