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A 3201: Allows county correctional facilities to use the profits from commissaries or canteens within the facilities for the general purposes of the institution.
What A 3201 does, verified January 9, 2026
The bill aims to improve the use of profits from commissaries or canteens in county correctional facilities. Moneys received from the sales of these facilities will be deposited into a special fund, known as the commissary or canteen fund. The funds in this special account will be used for the general purposes of the institution, rather than being kept by the facility's administration or used for other purposes. The bill will take effect thirty days after it becomes a law.
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5GovernorPending
6ChapteredPending
Last action: referred to correction (2026-01-07)Alert me
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| Jan. 07, 2026 | referred to correction |
| Jan. 23, 2025 | referred to correction |
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 23, 2025 · 207 words
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3201 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the use of profits from commissaries or canteens in county 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 500-q 2 to read as follows: 3 § 500-q. Use of profits from commissaries or canteens. Notwithstand- 4 ing any other provision of law, moneys received by the head of a county 5 correctional facility as profits from the sales of the commissary or 6 canteen shall be deposited in a special fund to be known as the commis- 7 sary or canteen fund and such funds shall be used for the general 8 purposes of the institution. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05413-01-5
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