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Senate Bill S1692

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions

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2025-S1692 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §26, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S3473
2021-2022: S1051
2023-2024: S1744

2025-S1692 - Summary

Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for no more than a certain percentage over the purchase price; provides that the department of corrections and community supervisions shall publish on its website the price list for all commissary items for sale at each institution as of June 1, 2025 and on an annual basis thereafter.

2025-S1692 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1692 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1692
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS,  BAILEY,  MYRIE, SANDERS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction  law, in relation to commissaries or
   canteens in correctional institutions

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   §  26.  [Establishment  of  commissaries]  COMMISSARIES or canteens in
 correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
 any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
 in such institution for the use and benefit of incarcerated individuals.
 ITEMS SOLD AT THE COMMISSARY OR CANTEEN SHALL BE SOLD AT  NO  MORE  THAN
 THREE  PERCENT  OVER  THE  PURCHASE PRICE FOR SUCH ITEMS. THE DEPARTMENT
 SHALL MAXIMIZE DISCOUNTS PROCURED BY BULK PURCHASING COMMISSARY ITEMS OR
 THROUGH OTHER CONTRACTING OPPORTUNITIES THAT REDUCE  THE  COST  OF  SUCH
 ITEMS,  AND  SHALL  NOT RECEIVE COMMISSIONS, REVENUE, OR OTHER FINANCIAL
 INCENTIVES IN ANY CONTRACT WITH A SELLER, SUPPLIER, OR VENDOR OF COMMIS-
 SARY ITEMS. The moneys received  by  the  head  of  the  institution  as
 profits  from  the sales of the commissary or canteen shall be deposited
 in a special fund to be known as the commissary or canteen fund and such
 funds shall be used for the general purposes of the institution  subject
 to the provisions of section fifty-three of the state finance law.
   2.  MONEY  PLACED INTO THE COMMISSARY OR CANTEEN ACCOUNT OR FUND OF AN
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL SHALL ONLY BE USED BY THE INCARCERATED  INDIVID-
 UAL  FOR  PURCHASES  AT  SUCH  COMMISSARY  OR CANTEEN. NO FUNDS SHALL BE
 REMOVED FROM AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL'S COMMISSARY OR CANTEEN  ACCOUNT
 OR  FUND  FOR  A VIOLATION, AS A PENALTY, OR FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN A
 PURCHASE AT SUCH COMMISSARY OR CANTEEN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01715-02-5

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2025-S1692A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §26, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S3473
2021-2022: S1051
2023-2024: S1744

2025-S1692A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for no more than a certain percentage over the purchase price; provides that the department of corrections and community supervisions shall publish on its website the price list for all commissary items for sale at each institution as of June 1, 2025 and on an annual basis thereafter.

2025-S1692A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1692A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1692--A
     Cal. No. 379
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS,  BAILEY,  MYRIE, SANDERS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Crime  Victims,  Crime  and Correction -- reported favorably from said
   committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
   reading,  amended  and  ordered  reprinted, retaining its place in the
   order of third reading
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  commissaries  or
   canteens in correctional institutions
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   § 26. [Establishment of  commissaries]  COMMISSARIES  or  canteens  in
 correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
 any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
 in such institution for the use and benefit of incarcerated individuals.
 ITEMS  SOLD  AT  THE COMMISSARY OR CANTEEN SHALL BE SOLD AT NO MORE THAN
 THREE PERCENT OVER THE PURCHASE PRICE FOR  SUCH  ITEMS.  THE  DEPARTMENT
 SHALL MAXIMIZE DISCOUNTS PROCURED BY BULK PURCHASING COMMISSARY ITEMS OR
 THROUGH  OTHER  CONTRACTING  OPPORTUNITIES  THAT REDUCE THE COST OF SUCH
 ITEMS, AND SHALL NOT RECEIVE COMMISSIONS, REVENUE,  OR  OTHER  FINANCIAL
 INCENTIVES IN ANY CONTRACT WITH A SELLER, SUPPLIER, OR VENDOR OF COMMIS-
 SARY  ITEMS.  The  moneys  received  by  the  head of the institution as
 profits from the sales of the commissary or canteen shall  be  deposited
 in a special fund to be known as the commissary or canteen fund and such
 funds  shall be used for the general purposes of the institution subject
 to the provisions of section fifty-three of the state finance law.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PUBLISH ON ITS WEBSITE THE PRICE LISTS FOR ALL
 COMMISSARY ITEMS FOR SALE AT EACH INSTITUTION  AS  OF  JUNE  FIRST,  TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-FIVE AND ON AN ANNUAL BASIS THEREAFTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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