Bill Text: NY S05945 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the department of corrections and community supervision shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education and counseling resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - signed chap.385 [S05945 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05945-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5945

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 human immunodeficien-
          cy virus (HIV) prevention

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section  76  of  the  correction  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. (a) Prior to the release of an inmate from a correctional facility,
     4  the  department  shall  provide  such inmate with information on transi-
     5  tional services available in the county or city  where  such  inmate  is
     6  scheduled  to  be  released.  Such  information  shall  include programs
     7  designed to promote the successful and productive  reentry  and  reinte-
     8  gration  of  an  inmate into society including medical and mental health
     9  services, HIV/AIDS  services,  educational,  vocational  and  employment
    10  services, alcohol or substance abuse treatment and housing services. The
    11  department  shall maintain a current list of transitional services which
    12  shall be updated regularly in order to effectuate the purposes  of  this
    13  section.  Where  appropriate, the department shall provide assistance to
    14  an inmate in contacting a program or  service  provider  prior  to  such
    15  inmate's release to the community.
    16    (b)  Upon  discharge  of  an  inmate from a correctional facility, the
    17  department shall provide such inmate with educational information  about
    18  the   prevention   of  human  immunodeficiency  virus  (HIV)  infection,
    19  instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing upon release,  includ-
    20  ing contact information for HIV counseling and testing service providers
    21  located  in  the  county  or city in which such inmate intends to reside
    22  upon release, and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education
    23  and counseling resources located in the county or  city  in  which  such
    24  inmate intends to reside upon release.
    25    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04695-01-9
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