Bill Text: NY S03261 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the housing of transgender or intersex inmates; authorizes the sheriff to assign a transgender or intersex inmate to any facility housing unit which shall ensure the inmate's health and safety.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S03261 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03261-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3261 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 5, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the housing of trans- gender or intersex inmates The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 500-b of the correction law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 14 to read as follows: 3 14. Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, a transgender or 4 intersex inmate may be assigned to any facility housing unit which, upon 5 the determination of the sheriff, ensures the inmate's health and safety 6 and is consistent with facility management and security. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect sixty days after it shall have become 8 a law; provided, however, that the amendments to section 500-b of the 9 correction law made by section one of this act shall not affect the 10 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06365-02-9
