New York A 8736: Provides for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage in correctional facilities

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A08736 Summary:

BILL NOA08736A

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SAME ASSAME AS S10109

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Amd §112, Cor L

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Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage for incarcerated individuals in their cells.

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BILL NOA08736A

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06/02/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

04/29/2026amend and recommit to correction

04/29/2026print number 8736a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8736--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 June 2, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Correction in accord-
 ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requirements for
 vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incar-
 cerated individuals and provide for safe food storage in correctional
 facilities

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 3 8. (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations requir-
 4 ing every vendor which contracts with the department to provide ordering
 5 and delivery of products to incarcerated individuals housed at correc-
 6 tional facilities to:
 7 (i) verify with the department that all items available for purchase
 8 on behalf of an incarcerated individual are in full compliance with all
 9 applicable rules, regulations and directives;
 10 (ii) coordinate with the department to track the number, content and
 11 weight of orders shipped to an incarcerated individual and notify a
 12 purchaser if an order would exceed a limit for such incarcerated indi-
 13 vidual and include information on what modifications, if any, to the
 14 order would make it compliant with applicable restrictions;
 15 (iii) have a system for notifying purchasers when all or part of an
 16 order has been rejected by a correctional facility and provide a full or
 17 partial refund to the purchaser as applicable; and
 18 (iv) conspicuously label packages with perishable food items in a form
 19 and manner as determined by the department to facilitate the timely
 20 processing of such packages by a correctional facility.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13274-03-6

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 1 (b) The commissioner shall require all correctional facilities to:
 2 (i) process all packages with perishable food items labeled pursuant
 3 to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of this subdivision within twen-
 4 ty-four hours of receipt of such package; and
 5 (ii) provide for the safe storage of perishable food items received by
 6 an incarcerated individual within the cell of such incarcerated individ-
 7 ual.
 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 9 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 10 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 11 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 12 completed on or before such effective date.

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