Assembly Bill A8736

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage in correctional facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2025-A8736 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §112, Cor L

2025-A8736 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage for incarcerated individuals in their cells.

2025-A8736 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8736
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law,  in  relation  to  requirements  for
   vendors  who  make products available for order and delivery to incar-
   cerated individuals and provide for safe food storage in  correctional
   facilities

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. (A) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS REQUIR-
 ING EVERY VENDOR WHICH CONTRACTS WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE ORDERING
 AND  DELIVERY  OF PRODUCTS TO INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS HOUSED AT CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITIES TO:
   (I) VERIFY WITH THE DEPARTMENT THAT ALL ITEMS AVAILABLE  FOR  PURCHASE
 ON  BEHALF OF AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL ARE IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH ALL
 APPLICABLE RULES, REGULATIONS AND DIRECTIVES;
   (II) COORDINATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT TO TRACK THE NUMBER,  CONTENT  AND
 WEIGHT  OF  ORDERS  SHIPPED  TO  AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL AND NOTIFY A
 PURCHASER IF AN ORDER WOULD EXCEED A LIMIT FOR SUCH  INCARCERATED  INDI-
 VIDUAL  AND  INCLUDE  INFORMATION  ON WHAT MODIFICATIONS, IF ANY, TO THE
 ORDER WOULD MAKE IT COMPLIANT WITH APPLICABLE RESTRICTIONS;
   (III) HAVE A SYSTEM FOR NOTIFYING PURCHASERS WHEN ALL OR  PART  OF  AN
 ORDER HAS BEEN REJECTED BY A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AND PROVIDE A FULL OR
 PARTIAL REFUND TO THE PURCHASER AS APPLICABLE; AND
   (IV) CONSPICUOUSLY LABEL PACKAGES WITH PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS IN A FORM
 AND  MANNER  AS  DETERMINED  BY  THE DEPARTMENT TO FACILITATE THE TIMELY
 PROCESSING OF SUCH PACKAGES BY A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
   (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE ALL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES TO:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13274-02-5
 A. 8736                             2

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