The New York City Council - File #: Int 0903-2018

• File #: Int 0903-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Funds remaining in commissary accounts when incarcerated individuals are released from custody.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on Criminal Justice
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Final action: 12/24/2021
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to funds remaining in commissary accounts when incarcerated individuals are released from custody
• Sponsors: Adrienne E. Adams, I. Daneek Miller, Robert F. Holden, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Keith Powers , Deborah L. Rose, Carlina Rivera , Helen K. Rosenthal, Farah N. Louis, Kalman Yeger , Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Justin L. Brannan, Eric Dinowitz, Darma V. Diaz, Laurie A. Cumbo, Margaret S. Chin, (by request of the Queens Borough President)
• Indexes: Report Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/24/2021	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
12/23/2021	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
11/23/2021	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
11/23/2021	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Hearing Held by Committee
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Hearing Held by Committee
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Amendment Proposed by Comm
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Amendment Proposed by Comm
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Amended by Committee
11/22/2021	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Amended by Committee
11/22/2021	A	Committee on Criminal Justice	Approved by Committee	Pass
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Justice System	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Justice System	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Justice System	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Justice System	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Laid Over by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Hearing Held by Committee
6/17/2019	*	Committee on Criminal Justice	Hearing Held by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 903-A

By Council Members Adams, Miller, Holden, Ampry-Samuel, Powers, Rose, Rivera, Rosenthal, Louis, Yeger, Brooks-Powers, Brannan, Dinowitz, D. Diaz, Cumbo and Chin (by request of the Queens Borough President)

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to funds remaining in commissary accounts when incarcerated individuals are released from custody
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 9-162 to read as follows:
? 9-162 Commissary accounts of incarcerated individuals. a. When an incarcerated individual is released from custody in a departmental facility, the department shall, as part of the discharge process, assist the individual in receiving unused commissary funds. Such assistance shall be given in a language the incarcerated individual can understand and shall include but not be limited to providing such individual, orally and in writing, information on the amount of commissary funds remaining in their account, how to obtain such funds and the locations at which they can immediately receive up to $200 in cash of such funds. For the purposes of this section, the term "commissary funds" has the same meaning as the term "prisoner funds" set forth in subdivision f of section 500-c of the correction law and in section 7016.2 of title 9 of the New York code of rules and regulations, or any successor provisions of such law or rules.
b. Immediately upon request from a formerly incarcerated individual at a location at which commissary funds are made available, the department shall return up to $200 of such funds in cash, and any funds to which such individual is entitled that exceed $200 shall be distributed by check and sent by mail if all necessary information, including a name and mailing address, is provided by such individual. The department shall also make such ...