S6389 • 2025

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals

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Sponsor: Pete Harckham
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals 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 the findings, conclusions and recommendations.

What This Bill Does

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals 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 the findings, conclusions and recommendations.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-05-18 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-05-18 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-03-26 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-25 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-24 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.622
2026-01-07 Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
2026-01-07 Assembly
RETURNED TO SENATE
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
2025-06-06 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2025-06-06 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2025-06-06 Assembly
REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2025-04-10 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2025-04-09 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2025-04-08 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.646
2025-03-13 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to study gender disparity in resources provided to incarcerated individuals
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 the findings, conclusions and recommendations.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          6389

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     March 13, 2025
                                       ___________

        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  the  findings,
    17  conclusions  and recommendations no later than one year after the effec-
    18  tive date of this act and shall submit with this report such legislative
    19  proposals as they deem necessary to implement their recommendations.
    20    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08556-01-5