Bill Text: NY S02692 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that the report the correction medical review board issues regarding the death of any inmate be issued to the governor, the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction, and requires that such report shall not be redacted except as otherwise required to protect confidential records.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - approval memo.48 [S02692 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02692-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2692
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 28, 2019
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        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  the  report  the
          correction  medical  review  board  is required to issue regarding the
          death of any inmate
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (d)  of  subdivision  1  of  section 47 of the
     2  correction law, as added by chapter 865 of the laws of 1975, is  amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (d)  Upon  review  of the cause of death and circumstances surrounding
     5  the death of any inmate, the board shall submit its  report  thereon  to
     6  the  commission  and  to the recipients of the annual report pursuant to
     7  subdivision seventeen of section forty-five of this article  and,  where
     8  appropriate,  make  recommendations  to  prevent  the recurrence of such
     9  deaths to the  commission  and  the  administrator  of  the  appropriate
    10  correctional  facility.  Such  report  shall  not  be redacted except as
    11  otherwise required to protect confidential medical  records  and  behav-
    12  ioral  health  records in accordance with state and federal laws, rules,
    13  and regulations.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08549-01-9