Bill Text: NY S06488 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-15 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S06488 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S06488-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6488
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 15, 2012
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       Introduced by Sens. MONTGOMERY, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered print-
         ed,  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. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 76 to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S  76.  HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) PREVENTION.  UPON DISCHARGE
    4  OF AN INMATE FROM A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL  PROVIDE
    5  SUCH  INMATE  WITH EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PREVENTION OF HUMAN
    6  IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) INFECTION, INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT HOW TO OBTAIN
    7  FREE HIV TESTING UPON RELEASE, INCLUDING  CONTACT  INFORMATION  FOR  HIV
    8  COUNSELING  AND  TESTING SERVICE PROVIDERS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OR CITY
    9  IN WHICH SUCH INMATE INTENDS TO RESIDE UPON RELEASE,  AND  REFERRALS  TO
   10  COMMUNITY-BASED  HIV  PREVENTION,  EDUCATION  AND  COUNSELING  RESOURCES
   11  LOCATED IN THE COUNTY OR CITY IN WHICH SUCH  INMATE  INTENDS  TO  RESIDE
   12  UPON RELEASE.
   13    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth 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.
                                                                  LBD01526-01-1