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Int 0355-2022

Permitting incarcerated individuals in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Criminal Justiceintroduced 2022-05-05

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2022-05-05Passed: 2023-12-31

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Correction to provide an incarcerated individual with a doctor of the same gender upon request, absent any substantial safety risk.

Committee on Criminal JusticeDepartment of Correction [ and], Department of Probation, and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice.

How it compares

38% of similar bills passed

19 passed · 31 died

This bill: 605 days in committee

Similar bills: median 498 days · 139 days when passed

Sponsors (17)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2022-05-05 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2022-05-05 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2023-01-25 · Committee on Criminal Justice
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2023-01-25 · Committee on Criminal Justice
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2023-01-25 · Committee on Women and Gender Equity
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2023-01-25 · Committee on Women and Gender Equity
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2023-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (3)

Committee on Women and Gender Equity · 2023-01-25 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Criminal Justice · 2023-01-25 · 10:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2022-05-05 · 1:30 PM · HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (8)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 9 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 9-163 to read as follows: � 9-163 Gender specific doctors. Any incarcerated individual in the custody of the department who requests a physician of such incarcerated individual's gender shall be treated by such physician unless so providing would substantially impact the safety or security of such individual, in which case such request must be fulfilled after such safety or security risk has abated. For the purposes of this section, the term "gender" has the same meaning as that set forth in section 8-102. � 2. This local law takes effect immediately. Session 12 AM LS # 7782 3/31/22 Session 11 BC LS # 3165 Int. # 65 - 2018