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NY A 4073

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Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Provides doula services at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to retain an organization to make at least two doulas at any given time available to provide doula services twice a week, for four hours, at all correctional institutions and local correctional facilities that house incarcerated individuals who identify as female, as well as to provide doula services during labor and delivery, upon request.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-01-07 — REFERRED TO CORRECTION
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Brian Cunninghamprimary
  • Phara Souffrant Forrestcosponsor
  • Dana Levenbergcosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-31

    REFERRED TO CORRECTION

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO CORRECTION

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: A 8097not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/A4073?summary=&detail=

Attribution

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