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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1578
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 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.
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