Comments: NY S01049 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly

Bill Title: Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 22)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-01-07 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S01049 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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