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

New York Senate Bill 8821 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)

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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8821
                    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
        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 immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01789-05-8