Prohibits correctional facilities from denying entry to certain peer support advocates based on such advocates' prior history of incarceration, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  4159--A
                                                          Cal. No. 75
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON, BURDICK, DAVILA, MEEKS, EPSTEIN -- read
   once and referred to the Committee  on  Correction  --  reported  from
   committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
   retaining its place on the order of third reading

 AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to prohibiting correc-
   tional facilities from blocking entry to peer support advocates  based
   on such advocates' prior history of incarceration
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 138-b
 to read as follows:
   § 138-B. PERMITTED ENTRY BY PEER SUPPORT ADVOCATES. PEER SUPPORT ADVO-
 CATES WHO ARE CERTIFIED OR LICENSED  BY  A  STATE  AGENCY,  OR  A  STATE
 AUTHORIZED  ENTITY  INCLUDING  THE  NEW  YORK  CERTIFICATION BOARD, OR A
 NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ACCREDITING AGENCY OR ASSOCIATION, AND ARE PARTIC-
 IPATING IN THE PROVISION OF  CORRECTIONS-BASED  SUBSTANCE  USE  DISORDER
 TREATMENT  AND TRANSITION SERVICES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MEDICA-
 TION ASSISTANT TREATMENT, PURSUANT TO  SECTION  19.18-C  OF  THE  MENTAL
 HYGIENE  LAW,  SHALL  NOT BE UNREASONABLY DENIED ENTRY INTO CORRECTIONAL
 FACILITIES SOLELY BASED ON SUCH ADVOCATES' HISTORY OF  PRIOR  INCARCERA-
 TION.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05308-02-5