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 money placed into an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account or fund shall only be used for purchasing items or goods.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1692
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. RAMOS, BAILEY, MYRIE, SANDERS -- 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 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.
18 2. Money placed into the commissary or canteen account or fund of an
19 incarcerated individual shall only be used by the incarcerated individ-
20 ual for purchases at such commissary or canteen. No funds shall be
21 removed from an incarcerated individual's commissary or canteen account
22 or fund for a violation, as a penalty, or for any reason other than a
23 purchase at such commissary or canteen.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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