Bill Text: NY A06417 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6417

Introduced

Bill Title: Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A06417 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06417-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6417

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to creating  parity  for
          incarcerated  individual telephone services for international calls to
          family members

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 623 of the correction law, as
     2  amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. (a) The department shall establish rules and regulations or depart-
     5  mental  procedures to ensure that any incarcerated individual phone call
     6  system established by this section provides reasonable security measures
     7  to preserve the safety and security of each correctional  facility,  all
     8  staff  and  all  persons outside a facility who may receive incarcerated
     9  individual phone calls.
    10    (b) Such rules and regulations shall include provisions  requiring  an
    11  incarcerated  individual who is placing a call to a family member who is
    12  outside the continental United  States,  Canada,  U.S.  Virgin  Islands,
    13  Puerto  Rico,  Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands to have the same
    14  restrictions on the duration or number of  calls,  or  use  of  unit  or
    15  facility  phones,  as an incarcerated individual who is calling a family
    16  member who is not outside the continental United  States,  Canada,  U.S.
    17  Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    20  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    21  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    22  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10648-02-3