Bill Text: NY A05134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5134 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2023 ___________ 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