Bill Text: NY S02690 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Conforms the definition of an inmate with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S02690 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02690-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2690 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to inmates with a seri- ous mental illness The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 6 of 2 section 137 of the correction law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of 3 2008, is amended to read as follows: 4 (i) he or she [has a current diagnosis of, or is diagnosed at the5initial or any subsequent assessment conducted during the inmate's6segregated confinement with, one or more of the following types of Axis7I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic8and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such diagnoses shall be9made based upon all relevant clinical factors, including but not limited10to symptoms related to such diagnoses:11(A) schizophrenia (all sub-types),12(B) delusional disorder,13(C) schizophreniform disorder,14(D) schizoaffective disorder,15(E) brief psychotic disorder,16(F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding intoxication and17withdrawal),18(G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified,19(H) major depressive disorders, or20(I) bipolar disorder I and II] is a person with a serious mental 21 illness, as defined in subdivision fifty-two of section 1.03 of the 22 mental hygiene law; 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07687-01-9