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NY S02666
Bill
Status
6/11/2025
Primary Sponsor
Julia Salazar
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AI Summary
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Requires correctional facilities to allow incarcerated individuals who give birth to keep all hospital-provided health supplies upon return, including diapers, breast pumps, breastfeeding supplies, sanitary napkins, and prescribed medications
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Mandates facilities provide breastfeeding parents with personal electric and manual breast pumps, breastfeeding covers, pillows, and access to lactation assistance from qualified personnel
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Grants breastfeeding parents the right to breastfeed or pump at any authorized location at a frequency they determine, store breast milk safely, and designate someone to pick up breast milk for delivery to their child (up to 36 months old)
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Requires the Department of Corrections and Commission to submit annual reports to legislative leaders containing disaggregated data on pregnant individuals, nursery program applications and denials, births, and infant placements
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Mandates written notice to all confined individuals about these requirements upon admission, prominent posting in care areas, and annual training for all personnel involved in supervising or caring for pregnant or breastfeeding incarcerated individuals
Legislative Description
Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents 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 incarcerated birth parents, 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 incarcerated birth parents 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 birth parents.
Last Action
REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
2/4/2026