S00731 Summary:

BILL NOS00731A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A05942
 
SPONSORMONTGOMERY
 
COSPNSRBAILEY, BENJAMIN, MYRIE, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §138-b, Cor L
 
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.
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S00731 Actions:

BILL NOS00731A
 
01/09/2019REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
02/28/2019AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
02/28/2019PRINT NUMBER 731A
03/11/2019REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
05/07/20191ST REPORT CAL.595
05/08/20192ND REPORT CAL.
05/13/2019ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
06/20/2019COMMITTED TO RULES
01/08/2020REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
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S00731 Committee Votes:

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S00731 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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S00731 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         731--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, BENJAMIN, SALAZAR, SERRANO -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on  Crime  Victims, Crime and Correction -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        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.
                                                                   LBD03542-04-9
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