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
