New York S 7557: Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members

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S07557 Summary:

BILL NOS07557 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02608

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SPONSORCLEARE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §623, Cor L

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Creates parity for incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to family members outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands by requiring identical restrictions on the duration or number of phone calls and use of unit or facility phones made available to incarcerated individuals who are calling family members who are not outside continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.

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04/22/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7557

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 creating parity for
 incarcerated individual telephone services for international calls to
 family members

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 623 of the correction law, as
 2 amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 4. (a) The department shall establish rules and regulations or depart-
 5 mental procedures to ensure that any incarcerated individual phone call
 6 system established by this section provides reasonable security measures
 7 to preserve the safety and security of each correctional facility, all
 8 staff and all persons outside a facility who may receive incarcerated
 9 individual phone calls.
 10 (b) Such rules and regulations shall include provisions requiring an
 11 incarcerated individual who is placing a call to a family member who is
 12 outside the continental United States, Canada, U.S. Virgin Islands,
 13 Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands to have the same
 14 restrictions on the duration or number of calls, or use of unit or
 15 facility phones, as an incarcerated individual who is calling a family
 16 member who is not outside the continental United States, Canada, U.S.
 17 Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam or Central Northern Mariana Islands.
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 19 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 20 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 21 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 22 on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00833-01-5

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