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Assembly Bill A5108

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the housing of transgender or intersex inmates

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2019-A5108 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3261
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §500-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7653, S8709
2021-2022: S2194
2023-2024: S744
2025-2026: S2409

2019-A5108 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the housing of transgender or intersex inmates; authorizes the sheriff to assign a transgender or intersex inmate to any facility housing unit which shall ensure the inmate's health and safety.

2019-A5108 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5108
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DAVILA, MOSLEY, ORTIZ, L. ROSENTHAL -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the housing of trans-
   gender or intersex inmates
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 500-b of the correction law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 14 to read as follows:
   14. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, A  TRANSGENDER  OR
 INTERSEX INMATE MAY BE ASSIGNED TO ANY FACILITY HOUSING UNIT WHICH, UPON
 THE DETERMINATION OF THE SHERIFF, ENSURES THE INMATE'S HEALTH AND SAFETY
 AND IS CONSISTENT WITH FACILITY MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY.
   §  2. This act shall take effect sixty days after it shall have become
 a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section  500-b  of  the
 correction  law  made  by  section  one of this act shall not affect the
 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06365-01-9

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