STATE OF NEW YORK
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8198
IN SENATE
January 12, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to allowing certain
additional privileges to incarcerated individuals when visitation is
suspended for any reason
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 follows:
3 § 138-b. Suspension of visitation privileges. 1. Notwithstanding any
4 other provision of law, in the event that the visitation of incarcerated
5 individuals is suspended, for at least seven consecutive days, due to a
6 declaration of a state of emergency by the governor, a local official or
7 for any other reason, each incarcerated individual in a correctional
8 facility shall be allowed and shall receive, in addition to any other
9 privilege:
10 (a) seven free stamps per week;
11 (b) two free secure messages per week via electronic tablet; and
12 (c) two free phone calls per week.
13 2. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations
14 necessary for the implementation of this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03684-01-3
