Assembly Bill A4362

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes daily visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities

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  • 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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2021-A4362 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2898
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10359
2019-2020: A4338, S2689
2023-2024: S3316

2021-A4362 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities seven days a week.

2021-A4362 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4362
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 3, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WEPRIN, BARRON, COLTON -- 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.
                                                            LBD04336-01-1

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