Bill Text: NY S03316 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03316 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03316-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3316

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  GOUNARDES,  PERSAUD, STAVISKY -- 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.
                                                                   LBD00257-01-3
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