Bill Text: NY A00588 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to providing feminine hygiene products at no cost to individuals in correctional facilities and to any other individual in a punitive custodial setting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-12 - substituted by s8821a [A00588 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A00588-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         588--B
                                                                 Cal. No. 46
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 9, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL, LUPARDO, JENNE, PHEFFER AMATO,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, SEAWRIGHT, JAFFEE, SIMON, DE LA ROSA, ARROYO, SIMOTAS,
          JEAN-PIERRE, LIFTON, WRIGHT, TITUS, RICHARDSON, NIOU, WILLIAMS,  HOOP-
          ER,  JOYNER,  HUNTER, DAVILA, GUNTHER, GLICK, SOLAGES, HYNDMAN, BLAKE,
          CARROLL, M. G. MILLER, BRINDISI, CRESPO, PAULIN, RIVERA, COLTON, GOTT-
          FRIED, WALKER, WEPRIN, AUBRY, STECK, QUART, ORTIZ  --  Multi-Sponsored
          by  --  M.    of A. COOK, DICKENS, EPSTEIN, GALEF, WALLACE, WEINSTEIN,
          WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Correction  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- advanced to a third  reading,  passed
          by  Assembly  and  delivered  to the Senate, recalled from the Senate,
          vote reconsidered, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted,  retaining  its
          place on the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to providing feminine
          hygiene products at no cost to individuals in correctional facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The correction law is amended by adding a new section 625
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 625. Feminine hygiene products. Feminine hygiene  products,  includ-
     4  ing,  but  not  limited  to, sanitary napkins, tampons and panty liners,
     5  shall be provided at no cost to individuals housed in  state  and  local
     6  correctional  facilities  used  for  the  general  confinement of female
     7  inmates and in any  other  state  or  local  facility  where  women  are
     8  detained or confined by law enforcement agencies.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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