Assembly Bill A7630A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents of children and their children

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2023-A7630 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7132
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§611 & 2, Cor L

2023-A7630 - Summary

Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents of children and their children.

2023-A7630 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7630
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to promoting the health,
   safety,  and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incar-
   cerated birthing parents of children and their children; and to repeal
   section 611 of the correction law relating to births  to  incarcerated
   individuals and care of children by incarcerated individuals
 
   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  Section 611 of the correction law is REPEALED  and  a  new
 section 611 is added to read as follows:
   §  611.  PREGNANT  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS. 1. PURPOSE AND FINDINGS.
 INDIVIDUALS CONFINED IN CORRECTIONAL  INSTITUTIONS  OR  STATE  OR  LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  FACE  UNIQUE HEALTH RISKS DURING PREGNANCY AND
 CHILDBIRTH, AND LACK OF APPROPRIATE PRENATAL, OBSTETRIC  AND  POSTPARTUM
 MEDICAL  CARE CAN RESULT IN SERIOUS HARM TO BOTH THE BIRTHING PARENT AND
 THE CHILD. THE RIGHTS OF PREGNANT INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR CHILDREN MAY  BE
 COMPROMISED  BY THE CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT AND THE POLICIES AND PRAC-
 TICES OF CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND FACILITIES.
   2. PROVISIONS REGARDING PREGNANT INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.  (A)  PREG-
 NANT  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS  SHALL  BE  PROVIDED  WITH COMPREHENSIVE
 PRENATAL CARE, INCLUDING ALL NECESSARY TESTING, AND ALL NECESSARY TREAT-
 MENT, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND  GYNE-
 COLOGISTS,  THE  AMERICAN  MEDICAL  ASSOCIATION, THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF
 NURSE-MIDWIVES, AND THE ASSOCIATION OF  WOMEN'S  HEALTH,  OBSTETRIC  AND
 NEONATAL NURSES.
   (B) PREGNANT INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH APPROPRI-
 ATE  MEDICAL  CARE DURING LABOR AND DELIVERY, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE ACCESS
 TO QUALIFIED MEDICAL  PERSONNEL  AND  NECESSARY  MEDICAL  EQUIPMENT,  AS
 RECOMMENDED  BY  THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF OBSTETRICIANS AND GYNECOLOGISTS
 AND IN CONFORMITY WITH THE STANDARDS SET FORTH BY THE  AMERICAN  MEDICAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11258-01-3
              

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2023-A7630A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7132
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§611 & 2, Cor L

2023-A7630A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the health, safety and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals, incarcerated birthing parents of children and their children.

2023-A7630A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7630--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. KELLES, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, SOLAGES, DICKENS, SIMON,
   CLARK, LEVENBERG, COLTON, BURDICK, REYES, GALLAGHER, BURGOS, SHRESTHA,
   EPSTEIN, CRUZ, FORREST, MAMDANI, McMAHON, WALLACE,  LUNSFORD,  WALKER,
   DARLING,    CUNNINGHAM,    SEAWRIGHT,    TAYLOR,    SHIMSKY,    AUBRY,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, GIBBS, JEAN-PIERRE, HEVESI, SEPTIMO, TAPIA,
   RAGA, BORES, DAVILA -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
   Correction -- recommitted to the Committee on Correction in accordance
   with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to promoting the health,
   safety, and human rights of incarcerated pregnant individuals,  incar-
   cerated birthing parents of children and their children
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative purpose and findings.   People incarcerated  in
 institutions  or  local correctional facilities face unique health risks
 during pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and early childcare.  Lack  of
 appropriate prenatal, obstetric, and postpartum medical care, and appro-
 priate  health  and safety measures, can result in serious harm to these
 incarcerated people and their children. Pregnant and  postpartum  people
 who  are  incarcerated  and  such person's young children need prenatal,
 obstetric, and pediatric care, as  well  as  developmentally-appropriate
 resources provided in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment. Unless
 comprehensive  and  compassionate  laws,  policies, and practices are in
 place, the rights and care of pregnant and  postpartum  people  who  are
 incarcerated  and such person's young children may be compromised by the
 conditions of confinement in correctional institutions or facilities.
   § 2. The section heading of section 611  of  the  correction  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  322  of  the  laws  of 2021, is amended to read as
 follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11258-06-4
 A. 7630--A                          2
              

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