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Jan 23, 2023 | referred to correction |
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Jo Anne Simon
Rebecca Seawright
Anna Kelles
Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas
A2164 (ACTIVE) - Details
A2164 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Relates to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities at no cost; requires agencies charged with the operation and management of state and local correctional facilities and juvenile detention facilities to provide persons in their custody with voice communication service at a minimum of 90 minutes per day.
A2164 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2164 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EPSTEIN, SIMON, SEAWRIGHT, KELLES, GONZALEZ-RO- JAS, FORREST, JACKSON, DAVILA, GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing voice communication services to incarcerated individuals at no cost THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 623 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: § 623. [Incarcerated individual telephone] VOICE COMMUNICATION services FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS. 1. [Telephone] VOICE COMMUNI- CATION services contracts for incarcerated individuals in state correc- tional facilities shall be subject to the procurement provisions as set forth in article eleven of the state finance law [provided, however, that when determining the best value of such telephone service, the lowest possible cost to the telephone user shall be emphasized]. 2. [The department shall make available either a "prepaid" or "collect call" system, or a combination thereof, for telephone service. Under the "prepaid" system, funds may be deposited into an account in order to pay for station-to-station calls, provided that nothing in this subdivision shall require the department to provide or administer a prepaid system. Under a "collect call" system, call recipients are billed for the cost of an accepted telephone call initiated by an incarcerated individual. Under such "collect call" system, the provider of incarcerated individ- ual telephone service, as an additional means of payment, must permit the recipient of incarcerated individual calls to establish an account with such provider in order to deposit funds to pay for such collect calls in advance] STATE AND LOCAL AGENCIES CHARGED WITH THE OPERATION AND MANAGEMENT OF STATE AND LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES AND JUVENILE DETENTION FACILITIES SHALL PROVIDE PERSONS IN THEIR CUSTODY AND CONFINED IN A CORRECTIONAL OR DETENTION FACILITY WITH VOICE COMMUNICATION SERVICE EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05082-01-3