File #: Int 0355-2022    Version: * Name: Permitting incarcerated individuals in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Criminal Justice
On agenda: 5/5/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting incarcerated individuals in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor
Sponsors: Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Rita C. Joseph, Mercedes Narcisse, Alexa Avilés, Nantasha M. Williams, Tiffany Cabán, Sandra Ung, Chi A. Ossé, Kristin Richardson Jordan, Kevin C. Riley, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Shaun Abreu, Julie Won, Charles Barron, Crystal Hudson, Pierina Ana Sanchez
Council Member Sponsors: 17
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.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 355, 2. Int. No. 355, 3. May 5, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-5-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 5, 2022, 6. Committee Report 1/25/23, 7. Hearing Testimony 1/25/23, 8. Hearing Transcript 1/25/23
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12/31/2023*Carlina Rivera City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/25/2023*Carlina Rivera Committee on Women and Gender Equity Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/25/2023*Carlina Rivera Committee on Women and Gender Equity Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/25/2023*Carlina Rivera Committee on Criminal Justice Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/25/2023*Carlina Rivera Committee on Criminal Justice Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/5/2022*Carlina Rivera City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/5/2022*Carlina Rivera City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 355

 

By Council Members Rivera, Louis, Joseph, Narcisse, Avilés, Williams, Cabán, Ung, Ossé, Richardson Jordan, Riley, Gutiérrez, Abreu, Won, Barron, Hudson and Sanchez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting incarcerated individuals in city jails to choose the gender of their doctor

 

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.

 

 

 

 

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