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Senate Bill S976
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 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
co-Sponsors
(D) 14th Senate District
(D, WF) 47th Senate District
(D, WF) 28th Senate District
2015-S976 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9250
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยงยง137 & 500-k, Cor L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
S5906
2013-2014: S1401
2017-2018: S3732, A989, A3317
2019-2020: S787
2015-S976 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S976 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law, in relation to limiting the segregated confinement of persons in a correctional facility with serious mental illness PURPOSE: To ensure that inmates are not placed in segregated confinement - a Special Housing Unit (SHU) -- unless they have engaged in highly dangerous, violent or serious escape-related behavior while incarcerated in that facility. To limit the amount of time that an inmate may spend in a SHU to 90 days, except for an inmate whose behavior exposes a pattern of extreme violence or danger to himself or others. To establish an independent review board, to be known as the "inmate's special housing unit review council," to determine after 90 days whether continued confinement in an SHU is warranted and necessary. The council will be composed of seven members appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the Senate. One member shall be an attorney, one member shall be a mental health professional, one member shall be a criminal justice expert appointed from within employees of the state university system, and one member shall be a former inmate.
2015-S976 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 976 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered print- ed, 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 limiting the segre- gated confinement of persons in a correctional facility with serious mental illness THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraphs (c), (d), (e) and (f) of subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law are relettered paragraphs (e), (f), (g) and (h) and two new paragraphs (c) and (d) are added and subpara- graph (i) of paragraph (f), as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2008 and such paragraph as relettered by this section, is amended to read as follows: (C) INMATES SHALL NOT BE IN SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT FOR REASON OF DISCIPLINE, DETENTION, ADMINISTRATIVE SEGREGATION, PROTECTIVE CUSTODY, KEEPLOCK, OR ANY OTHER REASON FOR ADMISSION, UNLESS THEY HAVE ENGAGED IN HIGHLY DANGEROUS, VIOLENT OR SERIOUS ESCAPE-RELATED BEHAVIOR WHILE INCARCERATED IN THAT FACILITY; (D) CONFINEMENT IN SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT SHALL BE LIMITED TO NOT MORE THAN NINETY DAYS, EXCEPT FOR AN INMATE WHOSE BEHAVIOR EXPOSES A PATTERN OF EXTREME VIOLENCE OR DANGER TO HIMSELF OR OTHERS AND, PROVIDED THAT FOR THOSE CONFINED LONGER THAN NINETY DAYS, THERE SHALL BE A REVIEW EVERY NINETY DAYS BY AN INDEPENDENT REVIEW BOARD, TO BE KNOWN AS THE INMATE'S SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT REVIEW COUNCIL TO DETERMINE WHETHER CONTINUED SEGREGATED CONFINEMENT IS WARRANTED AND NECESSARY. SUCH COUN- CIL SHALL BE COMPOSED OF SEVEN MEMBERS APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE. ONE MEMBER SHALL BE AN ATTORNEY ADMITTED TO PRACTICE LAW IN THIS STATE, ONE MEMBER SHALL BE A MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, ONE MEMBER SHALL BE A CRIMINAL JUSTICE EXPERT EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02779-01-5
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