Bill Text: NY S00231 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 231

Bill Title: Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and members of the legislature, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the director of the facility, to visit any facility designated by the commissioner of mental health for care and treatment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - PRINT NUMBER 231A [S00231 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00231-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         231--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, OBERACKER, RHOADS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Mental Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental  Health  in
          accordance  with  Senate  Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to certain persons
          authorized to visit inmate-patient facilities

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  29.27  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision (k) to read as follows:
     3    (k) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure any
     4  facility designated by the commissioner for  care  and  treatment  under
     5  this  section,  provided that such persons shall make a concerted effort
     6  to notify the director of any facility, as soon as practicable,  that  a
     7  visit  will occur: the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of
     8  general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and
     9  members of the legislature.  The director of a facility shall be author-
    10  ized to deny any visit, if the director determines that the visit  would
    11  interfere  with  the regularly scheduled therapeutic activities or there
    12  would be an impact upon the ability to manage such facility.   No  other
    13  person  not  otherwise  authorized  by law shall be permitted to enter a
    14  facility of the office except by authority  of  the  commissioner  under
    15  such regulations, as the commissioner shall prescribe.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00099-03-4