A8097 (2023-24 session)
NY State bill
Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.
- Title
- Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2023-24 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2024-01-03
- In committee
- Correction
- Introduced
- 2023-09-29
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Brian Cunningham Assembly Member, District 43
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Correction NY State Assembly committee