Bill Text: NY A08626 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the effectiveness of provisions relating to religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas to 270 days after such provisions become law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-13 - signed chap.85 [A08626 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08626-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8626

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2023, amending  the  correction
          law  relating  to  requiring  religious dietary food options in prison
          commissaries and visitor's areas, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
          numbers S. 4748-B and A. 5939, in relation to the effectiveness there-
          of

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of  2023,  amending  the
     2  correction  law  relating to requiring religious dietary food options in
     3  prison commissaries and visitor's  areas,  as  proposed  in  legislative
     4  bills numbers S. 4748-B and A. 5939, is amended to read as follows:
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the [sixtieth] two hundred seventi-
     6  eth day after it shall have become a law.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08752-07-4