Relates to commissaries and canteens at correctional institutions; provides that items for sale at a commissary or canteen shall be sold for no more than a certain percentage over the purchase price; provides that the department of corrections and community supervisions shall publish on its website the price list for all commissary items for sale at each institution as of June 1, 2026 and on an annual basis thereafter.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2592--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, BURDICK, SHRESTHA, ROMERO, LASH-
ER, FORREST, SAYEGH, GALLAGHER, CRUZ, MEEKS, CUNNINGHAM -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Correction -- committee discharged,
bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
-- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accordance with
Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to commissaries or
canteens in correctional institutions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 26 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322
2 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 26. [Establishment of commissaries] Commissaries or canteens in
4 correctional institutions. 1. The commissioner may authorize the head of
5 any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen
6 in such institution for the use and benefit of incarcerated individuals.
7 Items sold at the commissary or canteen shall be sold at no more than
8 three percent over the purchase price for such items. The department
9 shall maximize discounts procured by bulk purchasing commissary items or
10 through other contracting opportunities that reduce the cost of such
11 items, and shall not receive commissions, revenue, or other financial
12 incentives in any contract with a seller, supplier, or vendor of commis-
13 sary items. The moneys received by the head of the institution as
14 profits from the sales of the commissary or canteen shall be deposited
15 in a special fund to be known as the commissary or canteen fund and such
16 funds shall be used for the general purposes of the institution subject
17 to the provisions of section fifty-three of the state finance law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 2. The department shall publish on its website the price lists for all
2 commissary items for sale at each institution as of June first, two
3 thousand twenty-six and on an annual basis thereafter.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
