Assembly Bill A2506

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals

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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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2025-A2506 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1888
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §628, amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4647
2023-2024: A3696, S4252

2025-A2506 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals.

2025-A2506 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2506
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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  628
 to read as follows:
   §  628. ADDICTION COUNSELING PROGRAM. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONJUNCTION
 WITH THE OFFICE OF ADDICTION SERVICES AND SUPPORTS,  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A
 PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WITHIN THE DEPART-
 MENT  IN  THE  STATE,  FOR  THE PURPOSE OF OFFERING ADDICTION COUNSELING
 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 PARTICIPATING INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUAL  SHALL  WORK  WITH  AN  AUTHORIZED SPECIALIST TO DETERMINE AN
 INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT PLAN, INCLUDING AN APPROPRIATE LEVEL  OF  COUN-
 SELING.
   §  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-
 EIGHT 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.
                                                            LBD03591-01-5

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