Assembly Bill A2106

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits sale of tobacco products in the commissaries or canteens of correctional facilities and requires a rule to prohibit possession of tobacco by an inmate

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A2106 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §26, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10711
2013-2014: A2551
2015-2016: A1314

2011-A2106 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits sale of tobacco products in the commissaries or canteens of correctional facilities and requires a rule to prohibit possession of tobacco by an inmate.

2011-A2106 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2106

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 13, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. LAVINE, M. MILLER -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  banning  tobacco
  products from correctional facilities

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 487
of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
  S 26. Establishment of commissaries or canteens in correctional insti-
tutions. The commissioner may authorize the head of any  institution  in
the  department  to establish a commissary or a canteen in such institu-
tion for the use and benefit of inmates. The moneys received by the head
of the institution as profits  from  the  sales  of  the  commissary  or
canteen  shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the commis-
sary or canteen fund and such  funds  shall  be  used  for  the  general
purposes  of the institution subject to the provisions of section fifty-
three of the state finance law.  TOBACCO PRODUCTS SHALL NOT BE  SOLD  OR
DISTRIBUTED  FROM  ANY  COMMISSARY  OR CANTEEN IN SUCH INSTITUTIONS. THE
COMMISSIONER SHALL AMEND RULE 113.9 OF SECTION 270.2  OF  THE  NEW  YORK
CODES,  RULES  AND REGULATIONS TO PROHIBIT THE POSSESSION OF ANY TOBACCO
PRODUCTS BY AN INMATE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06938-01-1

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