Assembly Bill A4610

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the provision of breast pumps to certain incarcerated mothers

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  • 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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2021-A4610 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §611, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A3483

2021-A4610 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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 one year of age except in limited circumstances related to parole.

2021-A4610 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4610
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law,  in  relation  to  providing  breast
   pumps to certain incarcerated nursing mothers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 611 of the correction law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  (A) IF A CHILD IS PERMITTED TO RETURN WITH OR ACCOMPANY ITS MOTHER
 TO AN INSTITUTION OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN WHICH  A  MOTHER  IS
 CONFINED  OR  COMMITTED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS SECTION, SUCH INSTITUTION OR
 LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL PERMIT THE MOTHER  TO  BREASTFEED  HER
 CHILD  AND  SHALL  PROVIDE  THE  MOTHER  WITH  A BREAST PUMP AND RELATED
 COLLECTION AND STORAGE MATERIALS FOR ANY PERIOD DURING WHICH THE  MOTHER
 AND  HER  CHILD  REMAIN TOGETHER IN AN INSTITUTION OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITY, BUT NOT BEYOND THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH CHILD REACHES  ONE  YEAR
 OF AGE. NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, A MOTHER SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH A
 BREAST PUMP AND RELATED COLLECTION AND STORAGE MATERIALS UNTIL HER CHILD
 REACHES EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF AGE IF SUCH MOTHER IS CONFINED IN AN INSTITU-
 TION,  IS  TO BE PAROLED SHORTLY AFTER HER CHILD REACHES ONE YEAR OF AGE
 AND SUCH CHILD IS PERMITTED TO REMAIN AT THE INSTITUTION UNTIL ITS MOTH-
 ER IS PAROLED.
   (B) IF A CHILD IS NOT PERMITTED TO RETURN WITH OR ACCOMPANY ITS MOTHER
 TO AN INSTITUTION OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY IN WHICH  A  MOTHER  IS
 CONFINED  OR  COMMITTED  TO  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION, UNTIL THE DATE ON
 WHICH SUCH CHILD REACHES ONE YEAR OF  AGE,  SUCH  INSTITUTION  OR  LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITY  SHALL  PERMIT  THE  MOTHER  TO COLLECT AND STORE
 BREAST MILK UNTIL IT IS READY FOR CONSUMPTION,  AND  SHALL  PERMIT  SUCH
 MOTHER  TO  DESIGNATE  AN  INDIVIDUAL TO COLLECT STORED BREAST MILK FROM
 SUCH FACILITY AND DELIVER IT TO HER CHILD.  SUCH  INSTITUTION  OR  LOCAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00813-01-1
              

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