Bill Text: NY A02592 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for no more than a certain percentage over the purchase price; provides that money placed into an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-21 - referred to correction [A02592 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02592-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2592

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 21, 2025
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        Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BURDICK -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to commissaries or
          canteens in correctional institutions

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

     1    Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322
     2  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  26.  [Establishment  of  commissaries]  Commissaries or canteens in
     4  correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
     5  any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
     6  in such institution for the use and benefit of incarcerated individuals.
     7  Items sold at the commissary or canteen shall be sold at  no  more  than
     8  three  percent  over  the  purchase price for such items. The department
     9  shall maximize discounts procured by bulk purchasing commissary items or
    10  through other contracting opportunities that reduce  the  cost  of  such
    11  items,  and  shall  not receive commissions, revenue, or other financial
    12  incentives in any contract with a seller, supplier, or vendor of commis-
    13  sary items. The moneys received  by  the  head  of  the  institution  as
    14  profits  from  the sales of the commissary or canteen shall be deposited
    15  in a special fund to be known as the commissary or canteen fund and such
    16  funds shall be used for the general purposes of the institution  subject
    17  to the provisions of section fifty-three of the state finance law.
    18    2.  Money  placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund of an
    19  incarcerated individual shall only be used by the incarcerated  individ-
    20  ual  for  purchases  at  such  commissary  or canteen. No funds shall be
    21  removed from an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen  account
    22  or  fund  for  a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason other than a
    23  purchase at such commissary or canteen.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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