Bill Text: NY A07016 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bi-monthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 26-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-28 - amended on third reading 7016a [A07016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07016-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         7016--A
                                                                Cal. No. 493
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 29, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DE LA ROSA, WEPRIN, SEPULVEDA, DICKENS, ORTIZ,
          MOSLEY, NIOU,  BARRON,  RICHARDSON,  RIVERA,  DAVILA,  WALKER,  ROZIC,
          BLAKE,  D'URSO, BICHOTTE, HARRIS, CRESPO, PEOPLES-STOKES, SIMON, COOK,
          GOTTFRIED, COLTON, JOYNER, HYNDMAN, JEAN-PIERRE -- Multi-Sponsored  by
          --  M.  of  A.    WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Correction  --  ordered  to  a  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to available transporta-
          tion for correction facility visitation
          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 follow:
     3    § 138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the inmate visit-
     4  ing program, the department shall provide transportation for visitors to
     5  correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less than  bimonthly,
     6  at  no  cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided from the city
     7  of New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany to correctional  facilities,
     8  as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning transportation
     9  shall  be posted on the department's public website, and shall be avail-
    10  able from the telephone  number  designated,  pursuant  to  section  one
    11  hundred  thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available transporta-
    12  tion shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon transfer to  a
    13  new correctional facility.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    15  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10801-02-8
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