Assembly Bill A7193

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9421
2017-2018: A4037
2019-2020: A3992
2021-2022: A8260

2023-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit.

2023-A7193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7193
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 12, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the removal of incar-
   cerated individuals diagnosed with mental  illness  to  a  residential
   mental health treatment unit
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section
 137 of the correction law, as separately amended by chapters 93 and  322
 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  Except  as  set  forth in clause (E) of subparagraph (ii) of this
 paragraph, the department, in consultation  with  mental  health  clini-
 cians,  shall  divert or remove AN incarcerated [individuals] INDIVIDUAL
 WHO AT ANY TIME HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED with A  serious  mental  illness,  as
 defined  in  SUBPARAGRAPHS (I),  (III), (IV) AND (V) OF paragraph (e) of
 this subdivision, from segregated confinement or confinement in a  resi-
 dential rehabilitation unit, where such confinement could potentially be
 for  a  period  in excess of thirty days, to a residential mental health
 treatment unit. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prevent the
 disciplinary process from proceeding in accordance with department rules
 and regulations for disciplinary hearings.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01122-01-3

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