Bill Text: NY S00861 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S00861 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00861-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           861

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction

        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to the use of profits
          from commissaries or canteens in county correctional facilities

          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 500-q
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  500-q. Use of profits from commissaries or canteens.  Notwithstand-
     4  ing any other provision of law, moneys received by the head of a  county
     5  correctional  facility  as  profits  from the sales of the commissary or
     6  canteen shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the  commis-
     7  sary  or  canteen  fund  and  such  funds  shall be used for the general
     8  purposes of the institution.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03647-01-3
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