Senate Bill S4567

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee

  • 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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2019-S4567 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11031
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10.10, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S2056, A3114
2023-2024: A3492

2019-S4567 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing certain legislators and clergymen or ministers to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.

2019-S4567 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4567 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4567
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
   mental Disabilities
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene law, in relation to authorizing
   certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  10.10  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
   (J) THE FOLLOWING PERSONS SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO VISIT AT PLEASURE ALL
 SECURE TREATMENT FACILITIES ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS ARTICLE: GOVERNOR AND
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, COMMISSIONER  OF  GENERAL  SERVICES,  SECRETARY  OF
 STATE,  COMPTROLLER AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE AND
 THEIR ACCOMPANYING STAFF, JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, SUPREME  COURT
 AND  COUNTY  JUDGES, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND EVERY CLERGYMAN OR MINISTER,
 AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE  RELIGIOUS  CORPORATIONS
 LAW,  HAVING  CHARGE  OF  A  CONGREGATION IN THE COUNTY WHEREIN ANY SUCH
 FACILITY IS SITUATED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10768-01-9

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