Assembly Bill A6247

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Amends the definition of special populations to include persons who are in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period, regardless of how the pregnancy ended

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Current Bill Status Via S5830 - On Floor Calendar

  • 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-A6247 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5830
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2, Cor L

2023-A6247 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the placement in segregated confinement of any person in the first eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy outcome by amending the definition of special populations to include such persons.

2023-A6247 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6247
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  amending  the  defi-
   nition  of special populations to include persons who are in the first
   eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period regardless of pregnancy
   outcome

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 33 of section 2 of the correction law, as added
 by chapter 93 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   33.  "Special  populations"  means any person: (a) twenty-one years of
 age or younger; (b) fifty-five years of age or older; (c) with  a  disa-
 bility  as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision twenty-one of section
 two hundred ninety-two of the executive law; or (d) who is pregnant,  in
 the  first  eight weeks of the post-partum recovery period [after giving
 birth] REGARDLESS OF HOW THE PREGNANCY ENDED, or caring for a child in a
 correctional institution  pursuant  to  subdivisions  two  or  three  of
 section six hundred eleven of this chapter.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10329-02-3

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