Assembly Bill A3696

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals

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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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2023-A3696 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4252
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §627, amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A4647

2023-A3696 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals.

2023-A3696 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3696
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to addiction  counseling
   services for incarcerated individuals
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new  section  627
 to read as follows:
   §  627. ADDICTION COUNSELING PROGRAM. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONJUNCTION
 WITH THE OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL ESTAB-
 LISH A PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WITHIN  THE
 DEPARTMENT  IN  THE  STATE,  FOR THE PURPOSE OF OFFERING ADDICTION COUN-
 SELING SERVICES FOR  ANY  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  IN  SUCH  FACILITIES
 SUFFERING  FROM  A  SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER.   AFTER A MEDICAL SCREENING,
 INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DETERMINED TO SUFFER FROM  A  SUBSTANCE
 USE  DISORDER  SHALL  BE  OFFERED  PLACEMENT  IN AN ADDICTION COUNSELING
 PROGRAM. PLACEMENT IN SUCH PROGRAM SHALL NOT BE MANDATORY.  EACH PARTIC-
 IPATING INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL SHALL WORK WITH AN AUTHORIZED SPECIALIST
 TO DETERMINE AN INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT PLAN, INCLUDING AN  APPROPRIATE
 LEVEL OF COUNSELING.
   §  2.  Section  45  of  the  correction law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
   20. ESTABLISH STANDARDS AND GUIDELINES  FOR  A  PROGRAM  OF  ADDICTION
 COUNSELING  SERVICES FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS IN COUNTY JAILS AND/OR
 COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES EQUIVALENT TO THE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED  IN
 STATE  CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-
 SEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06268-01-3

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