New York A 11507: Establishes standardized procedures for visiting incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities

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A11507 Summary:

BILL NOA11507 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10584

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SPONSORRules (Forrest)

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 9 §§220 - 236, Cor L

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Establishes standardized procedures for visiting incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities.

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BILL NOA11507 

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05/28/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 11507

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 28, 2026
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 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Forrest) --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to visiting incarcerated
 individuals in state and local 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 article 9 to
 2 read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 9
 4 VISITING IN STATE AND LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
 5 Section 220. Definitions.
 6 221. Visiting schedules.
 7 222. Visitor processing timeline.
 8 223. Visiting room accessibility and conditions.
 9 224. Visiting rights.
 10 225. Radiologist consultant.
 11 226. Visit denials, exceptions and accommodations.
 12 227. Body scanner procedures.
 13 228. Visitor medical exemptions.
 14 229. Incarcerated individual visiting rights.
 15 230. Investigations and appeals.
 16 231. Visit suspensions.
 17 232. Employee training and discipline.
 18 233. Emergencies; suspension of visits.
 19 234. Reporting.
 20 235. Right to bring an action.
 21 236. Law to be posted.
 22 § 220. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 23 terms shall have the following meanings:
 24 1. "Visitor" means a person visiting an incarcerated individual in a
 25 non-professional capacity, including but not limited to a family member,
 26 friend, or romantic partner.
 27 2. "Contact visit" means an on-site in-person visit without the pres-
 28 ence of physical barriers between an incarcerated individual and their

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15915-04-6

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 1 visitors. Contact visits shall allow for physical contact including but
 2 not limited to hand holding, hugging, and children being able to sit on
 3 their parents' lap during the visit. Contact visits shall not include
 4 interactions through a two-way, audio-video communication device, such
 5 as a computer.
 6 3. "Non-contact visit" means an in-person visit with a physical barri-
 7 er between an incarcerated individual and their visitors or a visit in
 8 which no physical contact is allowed. Non-contact visits shall not
 9 include interactions through a two-way, audio-video communication
 10 device, such as a computer.
 11 4. "Video call" means an interaction between an incarcerated individ-
 12 ual and a visitor through an audio-visual communication device.
 13 5. "Employee" means any person employed by the department or a munici-
 14 pality who works in any capacity in a state or local correctional facil-
 15 ity, or any person who works in any capacity or has a non-personal
 16 reason to be in a state or local correctional facility regardless of the
 17 identity of their employer.
 18 6. "State correctional facility" shall have the same meaning as
 19 "correctional facility" as defined in subdivision four of section two of
 20 this chapter.
 21 7. "Menstrual product" means a sanitary napkin, tampon, menstrual
 22 disc, or menstrual cup.
 23 8. "Contraceptive device" means an intrauterine device (IUD) or
 24 contraceptive implant.
 25 9. "Unremovable religious item" means headwear, clothing, or jewelry
 26 that is against one's religious beliefs to remove from their person.
 27 10. "Alternative search method" means any procedure used to search an
 28 individual that has not already been utilized on such individual regard-
 29 ing their intended entry into a state or local correctional facility,
 30 including but not limited to use of a body scanner, metal detector, pat
 31 down search, or canine