Bill Text: NY A06088 | 2019-2020 | 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; and provides that money placed into an inmate's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to correction [A06088 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A06088-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6088
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 27, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  FERNANDEZ  --  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 487
     2  of the laws of 1994, 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 inmates.  Items sold at
     7  the commissary or canteen shall be sold at the current market  rate  for
     8  such items, as based upon the cost of similar items for sale in the same
     9  region  as the correctional facility. The moneys received by the head of
    10  the institution as profits from the sales of the commissary  or  canteen
    11  shall  be  deposited  in a special fund to be known as the commissary or
    12  canteen fund and such funds shall be used for the  general  purposes  of
    13  the  institution subject to the provisions of section fifty-three of the
    14  state finance law.
    15    2. Money placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund  of  an
    16  inmate shall only be used by the inmate for purchases at such commissary
    17  or  canteen.  No  funds  shall be removed from an inmate's commissary or
    18  canteen account or fund for a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason
    19  other than a purchase at such commissary or canteen.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09700-01-9