STATE OF NEW YORK
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4560
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 7, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. STEC -- 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 establishing a third-
party vendor program to send certain packages to incarcerated individ-
uals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. (a) The commissioner shall establish a third-party secure vendor
4 mail program of not more than ten vendors, to be utilized for the deliv-
5 ery of all packages and articles to incarcerated individuals, including,
6 but not limited to the order and delivery of all products to incarcerat-
7 ed individuals housed at correctional facilities.
8 (b) The commissioner shall promulgate any rules and regulations neces-
9 sary to implement the provisions of this subdivision. Any regulations
10 shall require that all packages and articles are sent via an approved
11 third-party secure vendor. Such requirement shall not apply to letters,
12 cards or other items that are shipped via United States postal service
13 first-class mail.
14 § 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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