Bill Text: NY S01744 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1744

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for market value; provides that money placed into an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-21 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S01744 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01744-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1744

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS,  BAILEY,  MYRIE, SANDERS -- 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 commissaries or
          canteens in correctional institutions

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

     1    Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322
     2  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  26.  [Establishment  of  commissaries]  Commissaries or canteens in
     4  correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
     5  any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
     6  in such institution for the use and benefit of incarcerated individuals.
     7  Items sold at the commissary or canteen shall be  sold  at  the  current
     8  market  rate for such items, as based upon the cost of similar items for
     9  sale in the  same  region  as  the  correctional  facility.  The  moneys
    10  received by the head of the institution as profits from the sales of the
    11  commissary  or  canteen shall be deposited in a special fund to be known
    12  as the commissary or canteen fund and such funds shall be used  for  the
    13  general purposes of the institution subject to the provisions of section
    14  fifty-three of the state finance law.
    15    2.  Money  placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund of an
    16  incarcerated individual shall only be used by the incarcerated  individ-
    17  ual  for  purchases  at  such  commissary  or canteen. No funds shall be
    18  removed from an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen  account
    19  or  fund  for  a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason other than a
    20  purchase at such commissary or canteen.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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