File #: Int 1057-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring the dept of correction to report on its distribution of feminine hygiene products to female incarcerated individuals and female individuals arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Women and Gender Equity
On agenda: 5/25/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to report on its distribution of feminine hygiene products to female incarcerated individuals and female individuals arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours
Sponsors: Amanda Farías, Julie Menin, Althea V. Stevens, Farah N. Louis, Shahana K. Hanif, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, Chi A. Ossé
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Correction (DOC) to produce an annual report on its distribution of feminine hygiene products during the preceding 12 months. The report would include a table in which each row references an individual feminine hygiene product request. Each row would include the following information, set forth in separate columns: a unique identifier for each female incarcerated individual and each female individual arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours who made such request, the date of the request, the type of product requested, the quantity of product requested, the date on which the department provided the product in response to the request, the quantity of product the department provided on the date of the product request, the department facility where the request was made, and if the department did not completely fulfill the request, an explanation from the department for the unfulfilled request.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1057, 2. Int. No. 1057

Int. No. 1057

 

By Council Members Farías, Menin, Stevens, Louis, Hanif, Restler, Hudson and Ossé

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of correction to report on its distribution of feminine hygiene products to female incarcerated individuals and female individuals arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 9-141 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 

§ 9-141 Feminine hygiene products.  a. All female incarcerated individuals in the custody of the department shall be provided, at the department’s expense, with feminine hygiene products as soon as practicable upon request. All female individuals arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours shall be provided, at the department’s expense, with feminine hygiene products as soon as practicable upon request. For purposes of this section, “feminine hygiene products” means tampons and sanitary napkins for use in connection with the menstrual cycle.

b. Reporting on provision of feminine hygiene products. 1. No later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this subdivision, and annually thereafter, the commissioner of correction shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and post on the department’s website a report on its provision of feminine hygiene products in response to requests made during the preceding 12 months pursuant to subdivision a. Such report shall include a table in which each row references an individual feminine hygiene product request.  Each such row shall include the following information, set forth in separate columns:

(a) A unique identifier for each female incarcerated individual and each female individual arrested and detained in the custody of the department for at least 48 hours who made such request;

(b) The date such request was made;

(c) The type of such product requested on such date;

(d) The quantity of such product requested on such date;

(e) The date on which the department provided such product in response to such request;

(f) The quantity of such product provided by the department on such date in response to such request;

(g) The facility of the department where the request was made; and

(h) If the department did not completely fulfill such request, an explanation from the department for the unfulfilled request.

2. Such report shall include another table presenting the following information, disaggregated by each facility of the department:

(a) The total number of requests made during the preceding 12 months pursuant to subdivision a that the department completely fulfilled;

(b) The information required under subparagraph (a), expressed as a percentage of the total number of requests made during the preceding 12 months pursuant to subdivision a;

(c) The total number of requests made during the preceding 12 months pursuant to subdivision a that the department did not fulfill; and

(d) The information required under subparagraph (c), expressed as a percentage of the total number of requests made during the preceding 12 months pursuant to subdivision a.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

 

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5/18/2023 10:00 AM