Bill Text: NY A00131 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 131

Introduced

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, Buffalo and Albany.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A00131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00131-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           131

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        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 follows:
     3    §  138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the incarcerated
     4  individual visiting program, the department shall provide transportation
     5  for visitors to correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no  less
     6  than bimonthly, at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided
     7  from  the  city  of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany to
     8  correctional facilities, as determined by the commissioner.  Information
     9  concerning  transportation  shall  be  posted on the department's public
    10  website, and shall be available from the  telephone  number  designated,
    11  pursuant  to  section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice
    12  of available transportation shall be provided to  incarcerated  individ-
    13  uals upon reception and upon transfer to a 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.
                                                                   LBD02107-01-3