Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 29, 2014 |
signed chap.548 |
Dec 17, 2014 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 18, 2014 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.428 substituted for a10071 referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1526 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Jun 11, 2014 |
referred to crime victims, crime and correction |
Senate Bill S7818
Signed By Governor2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- 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
Votes
co-Sponsors
(R, C) 60th Senate District
2013-S7818 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A10071
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §404, Cor L; amd §9.27, Ment Hyg L
2013-S7818 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S7818 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law and the mental hygiene law, in relation to treatment plans for certain inmates who are receiving mental health services at or prior to the time of their anticipated release date PURPOSE: To provide mental health discharge planning for inmates who will be released on community supervision and to authorize regional community supervision directors to initiate involuntary commitment proceedings under the mental hygiene law. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 adds a new subdivision 4 to section 404 of the correction law. Section 2 amends subdivision 4 of section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law. Section 3 provides for an effective date. JUSTIFICATION: On June 1, 2014, nine days after being released from prison without mental health medications or any contact with a community mental health care provider, a mentally ill man stabbed two children in an elevator in Brooklyn, killing one of them, a six year old boy. The
2013-S7818 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7818 I N S E N A T E June 11, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, GALLIVAN -- 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 and the mental hygiene law, in relation to treatment plans for certain inmates who are receiving mental health services at or prior to the time of their anticipated release date THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 404 of the correction law is amended by adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 4. EVERY INMATE WHO HAS RECEIVED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE WITHIN THREE YEARS OF HIS OR HER ANTICIPATED RELEASE DATE FROM A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH MENTAL HEALTH DISCHARGE PLANNING AND, WHEN NECESSARY, AN APPOINTMENT WITH A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL IN THE COMMUNITY WHO CAN PRESCRIBE MEDICATIONS FOLLOWING DISCHARGE AND SUFFICIENT MENTAL HEALTH MEDICATIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS TO BRIDGE THE PERIOD BETWEEN DISCHARGE AND SUCH TIME AS SUCH MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL MAY ASSUME CARE OF THE PATIENT. INMATES WHO HAVE REFUSED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT MAY ALSO BE PROVIDED MENTAL HEALTH DISCHARGE PLANNING AND ANY NECESSARY APPOINTMENT WITH A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL. S 2. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (b) of section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 4. an officer of any public or well recognized charitable institution or agency or home, including but not limited to the superintendent of a correctional facility, as such term is defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision four of section two of the correction law, in whose institu- tion the person alleged to be mentally ill resides AND THE DESIGNEE AUTHORIZED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMUNITY SUPERVISION IN THE REGION WHERE SUCH PERSON ALLEGED TO BE MENTALLY ILL HAS BEEN RELEASED TO ANY FORM OF SUPERVISION FOLLOWING INCARCERATION. S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
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