Bill Text: NY S05976 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a mental health medical professional to examine inmates in solitary confinement when such inmate is in such confinement for a period in excess of twenty-four hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05976 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05976-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5976

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 requiring a mental
          health medical professional to examine inmates in solitary confinement

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision  6  of section 137 of the
     2  correction law, as amended by chapter  490  of  the  laws  of  1974,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c)  Where  such  confinement is for a period in excess of twenty-four
     5  hours, the superintendent shall arrange for a medical professional  with
     6  an  expertise  in  mental  health  and  for the facility health services
     7  director, or a registered nurse or physician's associate approved by the
     8  facility health services director to visit such inmate at the expiration
     9  of twenty-four hours and at least once in every twenty-four hour  period
    10  thereafter,  during  the period of such confinement, to examine into the
    11  state of health of the inmate, and the superintendent  shall  give  full
    12  consideration  to  any  recommendation  that may be made by the facility
    13  health services director for measures with respect to dietary  needs  or
    14  conditions of confinement of such inmate required to maintain the health
    15  of such inmate; and
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11743-01-9