Relates to available transportation for correction facility visitation; provides for at a minimum, bimonthly free transportation from the city of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3830--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, BAILEY, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SERRANO
-- 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-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 138-c. 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.
LBD00148-03-6
