Assembly Bill A4159

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits correctional facilities from denying entry to certain peer support advocates based on such advocates' prior history of incarceration

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2025-A4159 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1806
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §138-b, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9961, S8624

2025-A4159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits correctional facilities from denying entry to peer support advocates who are certified or licensed and are participating in the provision of corrections-based substance use disorder treatment and transition services based on such advocates' prior history of incarceration.

2025-A4159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4159
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JACKSON,  BURDICK,  DAVILA  -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  prohibiting  correc-
   tional  facilities from blocking entry to peer support advocates based
   on such advocates' prior history of incarceration

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
 to read as follows:
   § 138-B. PERMITTED ENTRY BY PEER SUPPORT ADVOCATES. PEER SUPPORT ADVO-
 CATES  WHO  ARE  CERTIFIED  OR  LICENSED  BY  A STATE AGENCY, OR A STATE
 AUTHORIZED ENTITY INCLUDING THE  NEW  YORK  CERTIFICATION  BOARD,  OR  A
 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ACCREDITING AGENCY OR ASSOCIATION, AND ARE PARTIC-
 IPATING  IN  THE  PROVISION  OF CORRECTIONS-BASED SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER
 TREATMENT AND TRANSITION SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO  MEDICA-
 TION  ASSISTANT  TREATMENT,  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION 19.18-C OF THE MENTAL
 HYGIENE LAW, SHALL NOT BE UNREASONABLY DENIED  ENTRY  INTO  CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITIES  SOLEY  BASED  ON SUCH ADVOCATES' HISTORY OF PRIOR INCARCERA-
 TION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05308-01-5

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