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 and Albany.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5693--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
and Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime
and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
2 to read as follow:
3 § 138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the inmate visit-
4 ing program, the department shall provide transportation for visitors to
5 correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less than bimonthly,
6 at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided from the city
7 of New York, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany to correctional facilities,
8 as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning transportation
9 shall be posted on the department's public website, and shall be avail-
10 able from the telephone number designated, pursuant to section one
11 hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available transporta-
12 tion shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon transfer to a
13 new correctional facility.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
15 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10801-03-8
