Bill Text: NY S08198 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-12 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S08198 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08198-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8198

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2024
                                       ___________

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




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03684-01-3