Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a person visiting such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating or has a contraceptive device or appears on body scan imaging or alternative methods to have or be using a menstrual product or contraceptive device.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8353--A
Cal. No. 1376
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 4, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SALAZAR, BRISPORT, COONEY, JACKSON, SEPULVEDA --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Crime
Victims, Crime and Correction in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Commit-
tee on Women's Issues -- committee discharged and said bill committed
to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, amended and
ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to visitors to correc-
tional facilities who are menstruating, wearing menstrual products or
have a contraceptive device
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 138-c. Visitors to correctional facilities; menstrual products and
4 contraceptive devices. No state or local correctional facility shall
5 deny entry or contact-visits to a person visiting an incarcerated indi-
6 vidual at such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating
7 or has a contraceptive device, or it appears on body scan imaging or
8 alternative screening methods that such person has or is using a
9 menstrual product or contraceptive device, including but not limited to
10 menstrual pads, tampons, menstrual cups, menstrual discs, intrauterine
11 devices, contraceptive implants, and vaginal rings. Such products shall
12 not be required to be removed for entry or contact-visits.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13262-05-6
