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

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8736

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 2, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        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 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. (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.
    21    (B) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL REQUIRE ALL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES TO:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13274-02-5
        A. 8736                             2

     1    (I) PROCESS ALL PACKAGES WITH PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS  LABELED  PURSUANT
     2  TO  SUBPARAGRAPH  (IV) OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION WITHIN TWEN-
     3  TY-FOUR HOURS OF RECEIPT OF SUCH PACKAGE; AND
     4    (II) PROVIDE FOR THE SAFE STORAGE OF PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS RECEIVED BY
     5  AN INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL WITHIN THE CELL OF SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVID-
     6  UAL.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     8  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     9  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    10  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    11  completed on or before such effective date.