Bill Text: NY A05853 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-20 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [A05853 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05853-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5853--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN, AUBRY, COOK, HYNDMAN, MORINELLO, TAYLOR
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health --  recom-
          mitted  to  the Committee on Mental Health in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD00099-02-4