Assembly Bill A6417

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members

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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-A6417 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7981
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §623, Cor L

2023-A6417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.

2023-A6417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6417
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 6, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to creating  parity  for
   incarcerated  individual telephone services for international calls to
   family members
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 623 of the correction law, as
 amended by chapter 322 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   4. (A) The department shall establish rules and regulations or depart-
 mental  procedures to ensure that any incarcerated individual phone call
 system established by this section provides reasonable security measures
 to preserve the safety and security of each correctional  facility,  all
 staff  and  all  persons outside a facility who may receive incarcerated
 individual phone calls.
   (B) SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISIONS  REQUIRING  AN
 INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL WHO IS PLACING A CALL TO A FAMILY MEMBER WHO IS
 OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED  STATES,  CANADA,  U.S.  VIRGIN  ISLANDS,
 PUERTO  RICO,  GUAM OR CENTRAL NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS TO HAVE THE SAME
 RESTRICTIONS ON THE DURATION OR NUMBER OF  CALLS,  OR  USE  OF  UNIT  OR
 FACILITY  PHONES,  AS AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WHO IS CALLING A FAMILY
 MEMBER WHO IS NOT OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED  STATES,  CANADA,  U.S.
 VIRGIN ISLANDS, PUERTO RICO, GUAM OR CENTRAL NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10648-02-3

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