Bill Text: NY A06247 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits the placement in segregated confinement of any person in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy outcome by amending the definition of special populations to include such persons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 25-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-18 - substituted by s5830 [A06247 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06247-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6247 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to amending the defi- nition of special populations to include persons who are in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy outcome The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 33 of section 2 of the correction law, as added 2 by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 3 33. "Special populations" means any person: (a) twenty-one years of 4 age or younger; (b) fifty-five years of age or older; (c) with a disa- 5 bility as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twenty-one of section 6 two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; or (d) who is pregnant, in 7 the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period [after giving8birth] regardless of how the pregnancy ended, or caring for a child in a 9 correctional institution pursuant to subdivisions two or three of 10 section six hundred eleven of this chapter. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10329-02-3