Bill Text: NY A09586 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals and make a report to the governor and the legislature of his or her findings, conclusions and recommendations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-13 - reported referred to rules [A09586 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09586-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9586

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Correction

        AN ACT directing the commissioner of corrections  and  community  super-
          vision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated
          individuals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of corrections and  community  supervision
     2  is  authorized  and  directed  to  study  gender  disparity in resources
     3  provided to incarcerated individuals. Such study shall include, but  not
     4  be limited to:
     5    (a) what resources are made available to incarcerated individuals;
     6    (b)  the amount of such resources made available to incarcerated indi-
     7  viduals of each gender;
     8    (c) the reasons for  any  disparities  found  between  the  amount  of
     9  resources made available to incarcerated individuals of each gender;
    10    (d)  recommendations  on  actions  that  may  be  taken to resolve any
    11  disparities found between the amount  of  resources  made  available  to
    12  incarcerated individuals of each gender; and
    13    (e)  any  other  related  information  that  the commissioner may deem
    14  necessary or relevant in carrying out this study.
    15    § 2. The commissioner of corrections and community  supervision  shall
    16  make  a  report  to the governor and the legislature of his or her find-
    17  ings, conclusions and recommendations no later than one year  after  the
    18  effective date of this act and shall submit with this report such legis-
    19  lative  proposals  as they deem necessary to implement their recommenda-
    20  tions.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13071-01-3