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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9881
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 15, 2018
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        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 or physical location as a children's psychiat-
     7  ric center operated by the state shall determine, prior to the treatment
     8  or admission of any person, whether such person is a  sex  offender,  as
     9  defined  by  subdivision one of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the
    10  correction law. No facility which operates in the same building or phys-
    11  ical location as a children's psychiatric center shall admit or treat  a
    12  registered sex offender at such location.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10093-02-7