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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4956
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 19, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, BAILEY, BENJAMIN, RIVERA, SALAZAR,
SANDERS, SERRANO -- 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 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 inmate visit-
4 ing program, the department shall provide transportation for visitors to
5 correctional facilities on a regular basis, but no less than bimonthly,
6 at no cost to visitors. Transportation shall be provided from the city
7 of New York, Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Albany to correctional
8 facilities, as determined by the commissioner. Information concerning
9 transportation shall be posted on the department's public website, and
10 shall be available from the telephone number designated, pursuant to
11 section one hundred thirty-eight-a of this article. Notice of available
12 transportation shall be provided to inmates upon reception and upon
13 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.
LBD08401-01-1
