Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2608
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS, CRUZ, REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR,
LUCAS, HYNDMAN, EPSTEIN, TAPIA, MITAYNES, FORREST -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to creating parity for
incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to
family members
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 623 of the correction law, as
amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
follows:
4. (A) The department shall establish rules and regulations or depart-
mental procedures to ensure that any incarcerated individual phone call
system established by this section provides reasonable security measures
to preserve the safety and security of each correctional facility, all
staff and all persons outside a facility who may receive incarcerated
individual phone calls.
(B) SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISIONS REQUIRING AN
INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO IS PLACING A CALL TO A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS
OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, CANADA, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS,
PUERTO RICO, GUAM OR CENTRAL NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS TO HAVE THE SAME
RESTRICTIONS ON THE DURATION OR NUMBER OF CALLS, OR USE OF UNIT OR
FACILITY PHONES, AS AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO IS CALLING A FAMILY
MEMBER WHO IS NOT OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES, CANADA, U.S.
VIRGIN ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO, GUAM OR CENTRAL NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00833-01-5
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