Assembly Bill A6488

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people

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Current Bill Status Via S3318 - 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-A6488 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3318
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7241
2019-2020: A2483, S2698
2021-2022: A4250, S2841

2023-A6488 - Summary

Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.

2023-A6488 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6488
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN, WALKER, EPSTEIN, REYES, CRUZ, AUBRY,
   HUNTER, TAYLOR, BURDICK,  BURGOS,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  JACKSON,  BARRETT,
   GIBBS,  DAVILA,  KELLES  -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the establishment  of
   a visiting program for incarcerated people

   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. VISITING PROGRAM FOR THE INCARCERATED. 1.   STATE  AND  LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  SHALL  PROVIDE  VISITING  PROGRAMS  WHICH GIVE
 INCARCERATED PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONAL CONTACT WITH THEIR  RELA-
 TIVES,  CHILDREN,  FRIENDS,  CLERGY,  VOLUNTEERS  AND  OTHER  PERSONS TO
 PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL TRANSFORMATION, BETTER INSTITUTIONAL  ADJUSTMENT  AND
 BETTER  COMMUNITY  ADJUSTMENT  UPON RELEASE. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE,
 BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, (A) VISITING HOURS THAT ARE REASONABLY LIKELY  TO
 ACCOMMODATE  PERSONS  TRAVELING FROM WITHIN THE STATE, INCLUDING EVENING
 AND/OR WEEKEND HOURS, (B) VISITS OF  SUFFICIENT  DURATION,  INCLUDING  A
 MINIMUM  OF  ONE  HOUR AT LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES SO THAT VISITORS
 AND INCARCERATED PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN RELATIONSHIP BONDS, AND
 (C) A PUBLISHED OVERCROWDING POLICY THAT IS EQUITABLE WITH DUE CONSIDER-
 ATION TO THE DISTANCE TRAVELED BY THE  VISITOR,  THE  FREQUENCY  OF  THE
 VISITOR'S  VISITS,  THE  MOST  RECENT  OCCASION  THAT  THE  INCARCERATED
 PERSON'S VISIT WAS TERMINATED DUE TO OVERCROWDING, AND ANY  OTHER  INDI-
 VIDUAL CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LIMIT IN-PERSON VISITS BETWEEN THE INCARCERAT-
 ED PERSON AND THE VISITOR.
   2. VIDEO CONFERENCING MAY SUPPLEMENT, BUT SHALL NOT TAKE THE PLACE OF,
 IN-PERSON VISITS.
   3.  NO INCARCERATED PERSON IS TO BE VISITED AGAINST HIS OR HER WILL BY
 ANY PERSON.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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2023-A6488A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3318
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7241
2019-2020: A2483, S2698
2021-2022: A4250, S2841

2023-A6488A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes visiting policies for incarcerated people, to provide incarcerated people opportunities for personal contact with relatives, friends, clergy, volunteers and other persons to promote better institutional adjustment and better community adjustment upon release.

2023-A6488A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6488--A
                                                         Cal. No. 184
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEPRIN, WALKER, EPSTEIN, REYES, CRUZ, AUBRY,
   HUNTER, TAYLOR, BURDICK,  BURGOS,  GONZALEZ-ROJAS,  JACKSON,  BARRETT,
   GIBBS, DAVILA, KELLES, SIMONE, ARDILA, SEPTIMO, TAPIA, BURKE, CUNNING-
   HAM,  CLARK,  MEEKS,  SHIMSKY, HEVESI, DINOWITZ, MAMDANI, JEAN-PIERRE,
   SIMON,  ZACCARO,  ANDERSON,   BICHOTTE HERMELYN,   LEVENBERG,   BORES,
   L. ROSENTHAL  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
   -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retain-
   ing its place on the order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the establishment of
   visiting policies for incarcerated people
 
   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.  VISITING POLICIES FOR THE INCARCERATED. 1.  STATE AND LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES SHALL ESTABLISH  VISITING  POLICIES  WHICH  GIVE
 INCARCERATED PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR IN-PERSON CONTACT WITH THEIR RELA-
 TIVES,  CHILDREN,  FRIENDS,  CLERGY,  VOLUNTEERS  AND  OTHER  PERSONS TO
 PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL TRANSFORMATION, BETTER INSTITUTIONAL  ADJUSTMENT  AND
 BETTER  COMMUNITY  ADJUSTMENT  UPON RELEASE. SUCH PROGRAM SHALL INCLUDE,
 BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, (A) VISITING HOURS THAT ARE REASONABLY LIKELY  TO
 ACCOMMODATE  PERSONS  TRAVELING FROM WITHIN THE STATE, INCLUDING EVENING
 HOURS STARTING AT SIX O'CLOCK P.M.  AND/OR WEEKEND HOURS, (B) VISITS  OF
 SUFFICIENT  DURATION,  INCLUDING  A MINIMUM OF ONE HOUR AT LOCAL CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITIES SO THAT VISITORS AND INCARCERATED PEOPLE WILL BE  ABLE
 TO  MAINTAIN RELATIONSHIP BONDS, AND (C) A PUBLISHED OVERCROWDING POLICY
 THAT IS EQUITABLE WITH DUE CONSIDERATION TO THE DISTANCE TRAVELED BY THE
 VISITOR, THE FREQUENCY OF THE VISITOR'S VISITS, THE MOST RECENT OCCASION
 THAT THE INCARCERATED PERSON'S VISIT WAS TERMINATED DUE TO OVERCROWDING,
 AND ANY OTHER  INDIVIDUAL  CIRCUMSTANCES  THAT  LIMIT  IN-PERSON  VISITS
 BETWEEN THE INCARCERATED PERSON AND THE VISITOR.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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