Bill Text: NY A03452 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A03452 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03452-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3452

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  use  of  profits
          from commissaries or canteens in county correctional facilities

          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 500-q
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 500-q. Use of profits from commissaries or canteens.   Notwithstand-
     4  ing  any other provision of law, moneys received by the head of a county
     5  correctional facility as profits from the sales  of  the  commissary  or
     6  canteen  shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the commis-
     7  sary or canteen fund and such  funds  shall  be  used  for  the  general
     8  purposes of the institution.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03647-01-3