Bill Text: NY A09745 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9745 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to personal phone calls for inmates in certain circumstances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-30 - enacting clause stricken [A09745 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09745-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9745
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 20, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSA -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Correction
       AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to personal phone  calls
         for inmates in certain circumstances
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  137  of  the  correction  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
    3    (G)  WITHIN  TWENTY-FOUR  HOURS  OF DISCIPLINARY CONFINEMENT, KEEPLOCK
    4  PENDING A DISCIPLINARY HEARING, OR PLACEMENT IN A SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT
    5  UNIT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PURPOSES, AND AT  MONTHLY  INTERVALS  THEREAFTER
    6  FOR  THE  DURATION  OF SUCH CONFINEMENT, AN INMATE SHALL BE PERMITTED TO
    7  MAKE AT LEAST ONE PERSONAL PHONE CALL, EXCEPT WHEN TO DO SO WOULD CREATE
    8  AN UNACCEPTABLE RISK TO THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INMATES OR STAFF.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15258-01-4