Bill Text: NY A04817 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4817 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits admission of sex offenders to state operated psychiatric centers which share facilities with a children's psychiatric center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to mental health [A04817 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04817-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4817
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Mental Health
        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to treatment of sex
          offenders in certain facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
     2  9.65 to read as follows:
     3  § 9.65 Treatment of sex offenders in certain facilities.
     4    Any facility operated by  the  state,  which  provides  non-emergency,
     5  clinical  outpatient  or inpatient psychiatric treatment and which oper-
     6  ates in the same building as a children's psychiatric center operated by
     7  the state shall determine, prior to the treatment or  admission  of  any
     8  person, whether such person is a sex offender, as defined by subdivision
     9  one  of  section  one  hundred  sixty-eight-a  of the correction law. No
    10  facility which operates in the same building as a children's psychiatric
    11  center shall admit or treat a registered sex offender at such location.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02635-01-9