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Assembly Bill A5942

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation

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2019-A5942 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S731
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S5693
2021-2022: A4881, A9727, S4956
2023-2024: A131, S1578
2025-2026: A180, S3830

2019-A5942 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-A5942 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5942
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DE LA ROSA  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on 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:

   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
 to read as follows:
   § 138-B. VISITOR TRANSPORTATION. IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INMATE VISIT-
 ING PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION FOR VISITORS TO
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT NO LESS THAN BIMONTHLY,
 AT NO COST TO VISITORS. TRANSPORTATION SHALL BE PROVIDED FROM  THE  CITY
 OF  NEW  YORK,  ROCHESTER,  SYRACUSE, BUFFALO AND ALBANY TO CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITIES, AS DETERMINED BY THE  COMMISSIONER.  INFORMATION  CONCERNING
 TRANSPORTATION  SHALL  BE POSTED ON THE DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC WEBSITE, AND
 SHALL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE TELEPHONE  NUMBER  DESIGNATED,  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS ARTICLE. NOTICE OF AVAILABLE
 TRANSPORTATION SHALL BE PROVIDED TO  INMATES  UPON  RECEPTION  AND  UPON
 TRANSFER TO A NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
   §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03542-03-9

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