Assembly Bill A10071

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to treatment plans for certain inmates who are receiving mental health services at or prior to the time of their anticipated release date

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A10071 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7818
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §404, Cor L; amd §9.27, Ment Hyg L

2013-A10071 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to treatment plans for certain inmates who are receiving mental health services at or prior to the time of their anticipated release date.

2013-A10071 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10071

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 11, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. O'Donnell)
  -- read once and referred to the Committee on 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.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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