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| Bill | Requires religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas | 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. | us/states/ny | New York Legislature | 2023-2024 | A 5939 | New York A 5939 (2023-2024) |
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1 | 16 | 2 | 2023-03-24 | 2023-12-08 | openstates | ocd-bill/3e9be24c-cfba-49eb-ae2e-d2502df38dee | http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A5939 | c1dafb55979617759523eb1cff748fc1bde2bec27cc2023933ce13307856d4ea | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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New York A 5939 (2023-2024) — Requires religious dietary food options in prison commissaries and visitor's areas
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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- A5939 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Assembly Vote — 141–2 (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — 52–10 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
- Simcha Eichenstein — primary (person)
- David Weprin — cosponsor (person)
- Nily Rozic — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2023-03-24 REFERRED TO CORRECTION
referral-committee - 2023-05-24 REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
referral-committee - 2023-05-31 REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
referral-committee - 2023-06-01 REPORTED
- 2023-06-01 RULES REPORT CAL.457
- 2023-06-01 ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.457
- 2023-06-01 PASSED ASSEMBLY
passage - 2023-06-01 DELIVERED TO SENATE
- 2023-06-01 REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
referral-committee - 2023-06-06 SUBSTITUTED FOR S4748B
- 2023-06-06 3RD READING CAL.712
- 2023-06-06 PASSED SENATE
passage - 2023-06-06 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- 2023-11-29 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
executive-receipt - 2023-12-08 SIGNED CHAP.687
executive-signature - 2023-12-08 APPROVAL MEMO.39
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3e9be24c-cfba-49eb-ae2e-d2502df38dee. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).