Assembly Bill A8626

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Changes the effectiveness of provisions relating to religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas

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Current Bill Status - Signed by Governor

  • 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-A8626 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8091
Law Section:
Correctional Services
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Chap of 2023 (as proposed in S.4748-B and A.5939)

2023-A8626 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the effectiveness of provisions relating to religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas to 270 days after such provisions become law.

2023-A8626 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8626
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend a chapter of the laws of 2023, amending  the  correction
   law  relating  to  requiring  religious dietary food options in prison
   commissaries and visitor's areas, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
   numbers S. 4748-B and A. 5939, in relation to the effectiveness there-
   of

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of  2023,  amending  the
 correction  law  relating to requiring religious dietary food options in
 prison commissaries and visitor's  areas,  as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 4748-B and A. 5939, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the [sixtieth] TWO HUNDRED SEVENTI-
 ETH day after it shall have become a law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08752-07-4

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