Senate Bill S383

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires gynecological services to be offered to certain incarcerated individuals

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Women's Issues Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S383 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Women's Issues
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §140-a, amd §§140 & 505, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S8630

2023-S383 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires gynecological services to be offered to incarcerated individuals with cervixes unless such individuals decline such services in writing.

2023-S383 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S383 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    383
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring gynecologi-
   cal services to be offered to certain incarcerated individuals

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 140-a
 to read as follows:
   § 140-A. PROVISION FOR ACCESS TO GYNECOLOGICAL SERVICES. 1. ALL PEOPLE
 WITH  CERVIXES  CONFINED TO A STATE OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL
 BE PROVIDED ANNUAL ACCESS TO GYNECOLOGICAL SERVICES AND  VISITS  WITH  A
 LICENSED  GYNECOLOGIST,  AT  NO  COST. SUCH SERVICES AND VISITS SHALL BE
 PROVIDED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STANDARDS DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH THE
 DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNE-
 COLOGISTS.
   2. ANY PERSON WITH A CERVIX CONFINED TO A STATE OR LOCAL  CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITY  WHO WISHES TO DECLINE THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES SET FORTH
 IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL DO SO IN WRITING.  EACH CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITY SHALL FURNISH A REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER EACH  JANUARY
 STATING THE PERCENTAGE OF ELIGIBLE CONFINED PERSONS WHO RECEIVED GYNECO-
 LOGICAL  SERVICES,  THE  PERCENTAGE WHO DECLINED SERVICES, AND COPIES OF
 ALL WRITTEN DOCUMENTS EVIDENCING DECLINED SERVICES.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 140 of the correction law, as  added  by
 chapter 516 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Subject  to  the  regulations of the department of health, routine
 medical, dental and mental health services and treatment is defined  for
 the purposes of this section to mean any routine diagnosis or treatment,
 including without limitation THE PROVISION OF GYNECOLOGICAL SERVICES FOR
 INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS  WITH  CERVIXES, the administration of medica-
 tions or nutrition, the extraction of bodily fluids  for  analysis,  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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