Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a visitor to such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating, wearing a menstrual product or has a contraceptive device

Plain English Breakdown

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Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a visitor to such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating, wearing a menstrual product or has a contraceptive device

Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a visitor to such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating, wearing a menstrual product or has a contraceptive device 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.

What This Bill Does

• Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a visitor to such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating, wearing a menstrual product or has a contraceptive device 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.

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Official Summary Text

Provides that no state or local correctional facility shall deny entry to a visitor to such facility due to the fact that such person is menstruating, wearing a menstrual product or has a contraceptive device
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.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          8840

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      June 9, 2025
                                       ___________

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

        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-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  138-B.  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.
                                                                   LBD13262-03-5