Bill Text: NY A09881 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended


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) 2018-04-23 - print number 9881a [A09881 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09881-Amended.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9881--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 15, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Mental  Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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.
                                                                   LBD10093-04-8
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