Bill Text: NY A05134 | 2023-2024 | 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 market value; 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) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A05134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES -- 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 the current
     8  market rate for such items, as based upon the cost of similar items  for
     9  sale  in  the  same  region  as  the  correctional  facility. The moneys
    10  received by the head of the institution as profits from the sales of the
    11  commissary or canteen shall be deposited in a special fund to  be  known
    12  as  the  commissary or canteen fund and such funds shall be used for the
    13  general purposes of the institution subject to the provisions of section
    14  fifty-three of the state finance law.
    15    2. Money placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund  of  an
    16  incarcerated  individual shall only be used by the incarcerated individ-
    17  ual for purchases at such commissary  or  canteen.  No  funds  shall  be
    18  removed  from an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account
    19  or fund for a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason  other  than  a
    20  purchase at such commissary or canteen.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04657-01-3