Assembly Bill A2608

2025-2026 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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2025-A2608 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §623, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6417

2025-A2608 (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.

2025-A2608 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2608
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. GIBBS, CRUZ, REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR,
   LUCAS, HYNDMAN, EPSTEIN, TAPIA, MITAYNES, FORREST  --  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.
                                                            LBD00833-01-5

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