Bill Text: NY S01578 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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, Buffalo and Albany.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S01578 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01578-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1578

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 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 follows:
     3    §  138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the incarcerated
     4  individual visiting program, the department shall provide transportation
     5  for visitors to correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no  less
     6  than bimonthly, at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided
     7  from  the  city  of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany to
     8  correctional facilities, as determined by the commissioner.  Information
     9  concerning  transportation  shall  be  posted on the department's public
    10  website, and shall be available from the  telephone  number  designated,
    11  pursuant  to  section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice
    12  of available transportation shall be provided to  incarcerated  individ-
    13  uals upon reception and upon transfer to a 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.
                                                                   LBD02107-01-3