A11394 • 2025

Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English

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Sponsor: Yudelka Tapia
Last action: 2026-05-15
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English

Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English.

What This Bill Does

Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English.

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Bill History

2026-05-15 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English
Increases access to substance abuse programming for incarcerated individuals whose first language is not English.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11394

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      May 15, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Tapia) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to increasing access  to
          substance  abuse  programming for incarcerated individuals whose first
          language is not English

          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 628
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 628. ACCESS TO SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAMMING FOR CERTAIN  INCARCERATED
     4  INDIVIDUALS.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL TAKE STEPS TO ENSURE THAT INCARCER-
     5  ATED INDIVIDUALS WHOSE FIRST LANGUAGE IS NOT ENGLISH ARE ABLE TO  UNDER-
     6  STAND,  PARTICIPATE  AND  COMPLETE  SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAMS PROVIDED IN
     7  CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. SUCH STEPS MAY INCLUDE, BUT NEED NOT BE LIMITED
     8  TO, INCREASED EMPLOYMENT OF BILINGUAL  SUBSTANCE  ABUSE  COUNSELORS  AND
     9  PROGRAM  STAFF,  TRANSLATION  OF PROGRAM CONTENT AND MATERIALS, TARGETED
    10  PROGRAMS FOR NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUALS  AND  OTHER
    11  STRATEGIES  DETERMINED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  IN  CONSULTATION WITH THE
    12  OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTS.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02109-01-5