A5478 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"; relates to the treatment and placement of incarcerated individuals based upon gender identity; requires that incarcerated individuals in state and local correctional facilities who have a gender identity different from their assigned sex at birth be addressed and have access to commissary items, clothing and other materials that are consistent with the person's gender identity; establishes that incarcerated individuals shall be presumptively placed in a correctional facility with persons of the gender that most closely aligns with such person's self-attested gender identity unless the person opts out of such placement.
- Title
- Enacts the "gender identity respect, dignity and safety act"
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-08
- In committee
- Correction
- Introduced
- 2025-02-14
- Active version
- A5478A
- Same as
- S1049
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Emily Gallagher Assembly Member, District 50
Co-sponsors
- Al Taylor Assembly Member, District 71
- Alex Bores Assembly Member, District 73
- Andrew Hevesi Assembly Member, District 28
Heard in committee
- Correction NY State Assembly committee
Same as
- S1049 (2025-26 session) NY State bill