Assembly Bill A10359

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Authorizes daily visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities

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Archive: Last 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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2017-A10359 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A4338
2021-2022: A4362

2017-A10359 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes daily visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities.

2017-A10359 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10359
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 17, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the correction law, in relation to authorizing daily
   visitation at general confinement 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 138-b
 to read as follows:
   §  138-B.  DAILY  VISITATION. VISITATION SHALL BE OFFERED SEVEN DAYS A
 WEEK AT ALL GENERAL CONFINEMENT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15398-01-8

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