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Senate Bill S4965
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S4965 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §508, Cor L
2015-S4965 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4965 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law, in relation to notice of transfer of sex offender to psychiatric hospital PURPOSE: To notify the former prosecuting district attorney of a sex offender when such prisoner is transferred from prison to a psychiatric hospital. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 508 of the correction law providing that where a prisoner is a sex offender, as defined by this chapter, the jailer or warden shall notify the district attorney who prosecuted the sex offender of the transfer to the psychiatric hospital. Section 2 is the effective date. JUSTIFICATION: In 2014 the most notorious sex offender in Oswego County History, Raymond Younis, was moved out of the maximum security unit at the Marcy Psychiatric Center to a less secure facility in St Lawrence
2015-S4965 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4965 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 24, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to notice of transfer of sex offender to psychiatric hospital THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 508 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 283 of the laws of 2002, and such subdivision as renumbered by chapter 33 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 2. a. If a physician to a jail or in case of a vacancy a physician acting as such and the warden or jailer certify in writing that a pris- oner confined in a jail either in a civil cause or upon a criminal charge is in such a state of mental health that he is in need of invol- untary care and treatment and in their opinion should be removed to a psychiatric hospital for treatment, the warden or jailer shall imme- diately notify the director who shall have the responsibility for providing treatment for such prisoner. If such director after examina- tion of the prisoner by an examining physician designated by him shall determine that such prisoner is in need of involuntary care and treat- ment, the director shall file an application for the involuntary hospi- talization of such prisoner pursuant to article nine of the mental hygiene law in a hospital operated by the department of mental hygiene or in the case of a prisoner confined in a jail in a city or county which maintains or operates a general hospital containing a psychiatric prison ward approved by the department of mental hygiene to such prison ward for care and treatment or to any other psychiatric hospital if such prison ward is filled to capacity. Such application shall be supported by the certificate of two physicians in accordance with the requirements of section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law and thereupon such prisoner EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07578-01-5
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