S4748 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Requires commissaries at correctional facilities to provide food options for purchase through the commissary that satisfy the requirements of halal, kosher and other religious dietary needs of the incarcerated individuals housed at the facility; requires correctional facilities to provide food options for purchase from vending machines located in the visitor's area of the facility that satisfy the requirements of halal, kosher and other religious dietary needs of the incarcerated individuals housed at the facility; and requires that the cost of such food options be comparable to food options that are ordinarily available.
- Title
- Requires religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- Senate Floor Calendar
- Latest action date
- 2023-05-02
- Introduced
- 2023-02-14
- Active version
- S4748B
- Same as
- A5939
- Substituted by
- A5939
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Jessica Ramos State Senator, District 13
Heard in committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A5939 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Substituted by
- A5939 (2023-24 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction, 2023-04-26 First reading