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, Buffalo and Albany.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ, GLICK, MAGNARELLI, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT,
LEVENBERG, HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, FORREST, RAGA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Correction
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 follows:
3 § 138-b. Visitor transportation. In conjunction with the incarcerated
4 individual visiting program, the department shall provide transportation
5 for visitors to correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less
6 than bimonthly, at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided
7 from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany to
8 correctional facilities, as determined by the commissioner. Information
9 concerning transportation shall be posted on the department's public
10 website, and shall be available from the telephone number designated,
11 pursuant to section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice
12 of available transportation shall be provided to incarcerated individ-
13 uals upon reception and upon transfer to a 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.
LBD00148-01-5
