Senate Bill S7818

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-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) - 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-S7818 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

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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