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NY A03483
Bill
Status
2/3/2023
Primary Sponsor
Linda Rosenthal
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AI Summary
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Changes references from "woman" to "person" throughout the Correction Law to include all incarcerated individuals who are pregnant or postpartum, regardless of gender identity.
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Requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide breastfeeding parents with personal electric and manual breast pumps, breastfeeding supplies, private lactation rooms with running water and electrical outlets, and access to lactation assistance.
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Extends the period children may remain with incarcerated parents from one year to twenty-four months of age, or up to thirty months if the parent is scheduled for release shortly after the child reaches twenty-four months.
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Mandates that incarcerated people be allowed to keep all health and newborn supplies from hospitals (including breast pumps, diapers, sanitary products) and receive uninterrupted access to prescribed medications upon return to facilities.
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Requires annual reporting to state leadership on detailed data regarding pregnant and postpartum individuals in custody, including demographics, pregnancy outcomes, nursery program applications and removals, and infant health outcomes.
Legislative Description
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to all mothers who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such mothers, but not beyond the date such child reaches twenty-four months of age except in limited circumstances related to parole; allows children to remain with their mothers in a correctional institution until twenty-four months of age, or longer in certain cases related to parole; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated mothers.
Last Action
reported referred to ways and means
5/30/2024