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New York COR bills, 2025-2026
Every New York bill filed under COR in the 2025-2026 session, newest action first. Status, author, and last action are public; tracking, alerts, and analysis open with Connect Plus.
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New York's 2025-2026 session has 61 bills filed under COR. 0 have been signed into law, 0 vetoed, 0 failed, and 61 are still moving. By status: 56 introduced and 5 passed first house. The most recent recorded action in this group was on June 5, 2026.
Asm. Erik Dilan (8), Sen. Cordell Cleare (6), and Sen. Luis Sepúlveda (5) have the most bills in this group. 35 started in the Assembly and 26 in the Senate. Every bill below links to its own page with the official summary, author and coauthors, recent actions, and committee of record.
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61 bills · showing the 61 with the most recent action · New York 2025–2026 Legislative Session
BillTitleStatus
S 1856Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.New York · last action 2026-06-05IntroducedA 3565Prohibits county correction officers from dispensing medications to incarcerated individuals on the premises of a local correctional facility; provides that correction officers or staff may dispense or administer medications during a medical emergency, or dispense nonprescription medication.New York · last action 2026-06-04IntroducedA 1607Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.New York · last action 2026-06-03IntroducedA 2121Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.New York · last action 2026-06-03IntroducedS 2666Relates to the provision of breast pumps and related collection and storage materials to certain incarcerated nursing birth parents who are confined in or committed to an institution or local correctional facility with or without their child subject to specific time limitations; requires institutions and local correctional facilities to provide pumps and related materials to such incarcerated birth parents; requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to issue an annual report on data relating to incarcerated birth parents.New York · last action 2026-06-03Passed first houseA 269Provides for enrollment of eligible incarcerated persons in the medical assistance for needy persons program; provides for enrollment of incarcerated individuals in other medical assistance programs, where eligible.New York · last action 2026-06-02IntroducedS 440Relates to voting rights and access for incarcerated individuals; authorizes polling places to be available at correctional facilities and local facilities; requires such facilities to provide persons detained or confined in such facilities access to register to vote or apply for an absentee ballot; requires voting information to be included in the inmate handbook.New York · last action 2026-06-02IntroducedA 8739Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations to establish and maintain a system for the preservation of data on tier one violations in correctional facilities.New York · last action 2026-05-29Passed first houseA 6666Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.New York · last action 2026-05-28Passed first houseS 6390Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to make correctional facility water testing results accessible directly, upon request, to incarcerated individuals and correctional facility staff in such facilities and make such water testing results available to the public on the website of the department.New York · last action 2026-05-28Passed first houseA 9072Establishes a digital legal mail program for the delivery of privileged correspondences to incarcerated individuals housed at correctional facilities; requires law offices sending legal mail via digital platforms to incarcerated individuals to register with the department of corrections.New York · last action 2026-05-19IntroducedA 5957Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing incarcerated individual in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.New York · last action 2026-05-18Passed first houseS 8492Establishes a digital legal mail program for the delivery of privileged correspondences to incarcerated individuals housed at correctional facilities; requires law offices sending legal mail via digital platforms to incarcerated individuals to register with the department of corrections.New York · last action 2026-05-05IntroducedA 8736Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations for requirements for vendors who make products available for order and delivery to incarcerated individuals and provide for safe food storage for incarcerated individuals in their cells.New York · last action 2026-04-29IntroducedS 1643Establishes a job fair pilot program for certain residents of correctional facilities in the Wende and New York City correctional facility hubs.New York · last action 2026-04-21IntroducedS 9984Increases the penalties for promoting prison contraband in the first and second degrees; requires that each state correctional facility use body imaging scanning for all incarcerated individuals and visitors entering such facility; requires state correctional facilities to use trained canines to screen for contraband at the entrance of each facility.New York · last action 2026-04-21IntroducedS 9535Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to promulgate rules and regulations to establish and maintain a system for the preservation of data on tier one violations in correctional facilities.New York · last action 2026-03-20IntroducedA 10507Enacts the "living wage for all act" in relation to raising the minimum wage to $30 by January 1, 2030 for large employers and by January 1, 2035 for small employers, and by a percentage based on inflation thereafter, providing for minimum wage requirements for miscellaneous industry workers, and minimum wage for incarcerated individuals working in correctional facilities; repeals provisions of law relating to minimum wage increases.New York · last action 2026-03-06IntroducedA 3506Prohibits and regulates the discovery and disclosure of immigration status; prohibits police officers, peace officers, school resource officers, probation agencies, state entities, state employees, and municipal corporations from questioning individuals regarding their citizenship or immigration status; regulates the disclosure of information relating to immigration status; prohibits an educational agency, higher education agency, school employee, school safety personnel, or third-party contractor from collecting information about a person's citizenship, immigration status, nationality, or country of origin, unless required by law or necessary to administer a public program or benefit sought by such person.New York · last action 2026-02-11IntroducedA 45Establishes an optional retirement stipend of thirty dollars per month for incarcerated individuals over age sixty-two who have completed at least five years of their sentence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 192Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 696Requires foster care records of incarcerated individuals to be sent to the correctional facility.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 1105Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more incarcerated individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 1261Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 1262Enacts the "Livable New York act" to fight back against climate change, provide additional affordable housing and provide employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals; makes a three billion dollar appropriation therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 2132Establishes a job fair pilot program for certain residents of correctional facilities in the Wende and New York City correctional facility hubs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 2719Enacts the "empire state of mind act" relating to the treatment of mentally ill persons in the realm of treatment in mental health and addiction services facilities, the penal system and social services.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4228Establishes a contraband screening plan which includes a canine at the entrance of each correctional facility to detect the presence of illegal drugs.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4349Relates to the Incarcerated Individuals Responsibility and Fair Wages Act; establishes a minimum wage for incarcerated individuals of five dollars per hour; establishes a prison incarcerated individual fund where up to forty percent of an incarcerated individual's wages can be sent to their family to help pay for certain expenses.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 4958Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5304Requires DOCCS' office of special investigations to send a representative of such office in-person to confirm any reported incident of bodily injury or harm to an incarcerated individual no later than 5 days after receiving such report.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 5363Establishes a third-party vendor program of not more than 10 vendors to send certain packages to incarcerated individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6258Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish contraband screening at correctional facilities including canines at the entrances and a third-party secure vendor mail program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6404Relates to an annual report of department statistics.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6600Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6849Establishes a third-party secure vendor mail program for the delivery of all products to incarcerated individuals housed at correctional facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 6881Requires incarcerated individual sexual harassment complaints made against department employees to be investigated by the attorney general; makes the findings and recommendations of the attorney general final and binding on the part of the department.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 7165Relates to incarcerated individuals wages; provides that incarcerated individuals shall be compensated at a base rate of $1.20 to $10 per day and shall be given biannual raises for adequate performance; provides that incarcerated individuals not participating in a work or program assignment due to age or frailty shall be paid $1.00 per day, adjusted every 5 years for cost of living.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 7880Requires the state to pay for independent autopsies at the request of the next of kin of incarcerated individuals who die in the custody of the department of corrections and community supervision.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8230Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish procedures to allow an incarcerated individual in a correctional facility which has suspended visiting privileges to have private meetings with their legal counsel.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8545Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to assess and update the security camera, land-mobile radio, and public address systems in use in correctional facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8573Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to collect and report on data from the office of special investigations regarding complaints received by such office in the previous quarter.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedA 8745Provides for an adverse inference against the testimony of an officer or other employee of the department of corrections and community supervision, where such officer or other employee violated department rules or regulations by turning off a facility camera or body-worn camera or otherwise prevented such camera or cameras from recording the incident which is the subject of such disciplinary proceeding.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 575Directs the state commission of correction to promulgate rules and regulations for strip searches in correctional facilities which at a minimum include a requirement that no fewer than two staff members shall be present for any strip search.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 888Relates to incarcerated individuals wages; provides that incarcerated individuals shall be compensated at a base rate of $1.20 to $10 per day and shall be given biannual raises for adequate performance; provides that incarcerated individuals not participating in a work or program assignment due to age or frailty shall be paid $1.00 per day, adjusted every 5 years for cost of living.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3087Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish contraband screening at correctional facilities including canines at the entrances and a third-party secure vendor mail program.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3611Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to permanently terminate the conjugal visit program, commonly known as the family reunion program; directs such commissioner to prohibit the establishment of any program designed to provide selected inmates and their families the opportunity to privately meet for an extended period of time.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3763Protects the rights of people in prisons, jails and forensic facilities; limits the use of cell or segregated confinement; grants access to tablets, visitation, and certain items.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3821Enacts the "Livable New York act" to fight back against climate change, provide additional affordable housing and provide employment opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals; makes a three billion dollar appropriation therefor.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 3929Authorizes incarcerated individual's serving indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for offenses involving controlled substances and marihuana to receive good time allowances against the minimum terms of their sentences not to exceed one-third of the minimum term imposed; provides that drug offenders can receive good behavior allowances for progress in assigned treatment programs and willing performance of duties.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4398Relates to an annual report of department statistics.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 4560Establishes a third-party vendor program of not more than 10 vendors to send certain packages to incarcerated individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5009Requires the use of canines for contraband screening at correctional facilities housing one hundred or more incarcerated individuals.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5038Establishes an optional retirement stipend of thirty dollars per month for incarcerated individuals over age sixty-two who have completed at least five years of their sentence.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 5824Relates to confidential hearing records; authorizes attorney representing incarcerated individual in certain proceedings to obtain a copy of hearing record; prohibits redisclosure.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 6419Limits retaliation against incarcerated individuals following the filing of a grievance, by requiring more than the oral or written statement of the subject of a grievance filed by an incarcerated individual for the purposes of finding such incarcerated individual guilty at an evidentiary or disciplinary hearing for misbehavior.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 6451Requires foster care records of incarcerated individuals to be sent to the correctional facility.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 7510Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8182Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to establish procedures to allow an incarcerated individual in a correctional facility which has suspended visiting privileges to have private meetings with their legal counsel.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8249Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to collect and report on data from the office of special investigations regarding complaints received by such office in the previous quarter.New York · last action 2026-01-07IntroducedS 8250Requires the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to assess and update the security camera, land-mobile radio, and public address systems in use in correctional facilities.New York · last action 2026-01-07Introduced
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