Bill Text: NY A04338 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4338 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes daily visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A04338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04338-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4338
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, COLTON, MOSLEY -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in  relation  to  authorizing  daily
          visitation at general confinement 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 138-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 138-b. Daily visitation. Visitation shall be offered  seven  days  a
     4  week at all general confinement correctional facilities.
     5    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     6  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08583-01-9