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Assembly Bill A3201

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the use of profits from commissaries or canteens in county correctional facilities

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2025-A3201 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2311
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §500-q, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7122
2019-2020: S275
2021-2022: A7906, S3499
2023-2024: A3452, S861

2025-A3201 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.

2025-A3201 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3201
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the  use  of  profits
   from commissaries or canteens in county correctional facilities
 
   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 500-q
 to read as follows:
   § 500-Q. USE OF PROFITS FROM COMMISSARIES OR CANTEENS.   NOTWITHSTAND-
 ING  ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, MONEYS RECEIVED BY THE HEAD OF A COUNTY
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITY 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.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05413-01-5

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