Bill Text: NY S07936 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-11 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S07936 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07936-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7936

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 3, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          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