Bill Text: NY A00180 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to correction [A00180 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00180-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           180

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CRUZ,  GLICK, MAGNARELLI, TAYLOR, SEAWRIGHT,
          LEVENBERG, HEVESI, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, FORREST,  RAGA  --  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  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.
                                                                   LBD00148-01-5