Assembly Bill A131

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation

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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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2023-A131 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1578
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S5693
2019-2020: A5942, S731
2021-2022: A4881, A9727, S4956

2023-A131 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bi-monthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany.

2023-A131 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    131
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to available transporta-
   tion for correction facility visitation
 
   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. VISITOR TRANSPORTATION. IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUAL VISITING PROGRAM, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION
 FOR VISITORS TO CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES ON A REGULAR BASIS, BUT NO  LESS
 THAN BIMONTHLY, AT NO COST TO VISITORS. TRANSPORTATION SHALL BE PROVIDED
 FROM  THE  CITY  OF NEW YORK, ROCHESTER, SYRACUSE, BUFFALO AND ALBANY TO
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER.  INFORMATION
 CONCERNING  TRANSPORTATION  SHALL  BE  POSTED ON THE DEPARTMENT'S PUBLIC
 WEBSITE, AND SHALL BE AVAILABLE FROM THE  TELEPHONE  NUMBER  DESIGNATED,
 PURSUANT  TO  SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-EIGHT-A OF THIS ARTICLE. NOTICE
 OF AVAILABLE TRANSPORTATION SHALL BE PROVIDED TO  INCARCERATED  INDIVID-
 UALS UPON RECEPTION AND UPON TRANSFER TO A NEW CORRECTIONAL FACILITY.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD02107-01-3

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