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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5942
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. DE LA ROSA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on 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.
LBD03542-03-9
