Bill Text: NY S02689 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes visitation at all general confinement correctional facilities seven days a week.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02689 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02689-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2689
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
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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  authorizing  daily
          visitation at general confinement correctional facilities
          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. Daily visitation. Visitation shall be offered  seven  days  a
     4  week at all general confinement correctional facilities.
     5    §  2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     6  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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