New York Assembly Bill 8097 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on September 29 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-03 - referred to correction
Pending: Assembly Correction Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.

Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.

Asm. Brian Cunningham [D]

Asm. Phara Souffrant Forrest [D]

Asm. Dana Levenberg [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Assembly	referred to correction
2023-09-29	Assembly	referred to correction

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8097
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08097&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08097