Bill Text: NY S08821 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 8821 (Prior Session Legislation)

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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-07 - SIGNED CHAP.392 [S08821 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08821-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8821--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 23, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PERSAUD, RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Crime  Victims,
          Crime  and  Correction  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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.
                                                                   LBD01789-07-8