A5452 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Prohibits imposing imprisonment or other penalties or fines for sleeping or camping in public spaces; prohibits involuntary admission to a hospital for observation, care and treatment or deeming a person as posing a substantial risk of physical harm to themself for failing to provide their own essential needs solely due to the fact that such person is sleeping in or upon publicly-owned property which is open to the public at such time.
- Title
- Prohibits imprisonment for sleeping or camping in public spaces
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-04-13
- In committee
- Codes
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Active version
- A5452A
- Law section
- Civil Rights Law
Sponsors
- Phara Souffrant Forrest Assembly Member, District 57
Co-sponsors
- Yudelka Tapia Assembly Member, District 86
Heard in committee
- Codes NY State Assembly committee