Senate Bill S1888

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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-S1888 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2506
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §628, amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A4647
2023-2024: S4252, A3696

2025-S1888 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to addiction counseling services for incarcerated individuals.

2025-S1888 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1888 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1888
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- read twice and ordered printed, 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 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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