Bill Text: NY S00230 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires free, routine distribution of condoms to inmates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-12 - COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES [S00230 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00230-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, PARKER
-- 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 requiring correction-
al facilities to distribute condoms to inmates
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 609
2 to read as follows:
3 S 609. DISTRIBUTION OF CONDOMS TO INMATES. THE WARDEN OR SUPERINTEN-
4 DENT OF EACH OF THE INSTITUTIONS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPART-
5 MENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES SHALL REGULARLY DISTRIBUTE CONDOMS FREE OF
6 CHARGE TO EACH INMATE IN HIS OR HER CUSTODY. SUCH DISTRIBUTION SHALL BE
7 PART OF A ROUTINE PROGRAM AND SHALL NOT REQUIRE A REQUEST BY AN INMATE.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01398-01-1
