Bill Text: NY S07818 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 7818 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to treatment plans for certain inmates who are receiving mental health services at or prior to the time of their anticipated release date.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-29 - SIGNED CHAP.548 [S07818 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07818-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7818
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 11, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sens. YOUNG, GALLIVAN -- 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  and the mental hygiene law, in
         relation to treatment plans for  certain  inmates  who  are  receiving
         mental  health  services  at or prior to the time of their anticipated
         release date
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  404 of the correction law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. EVERY INMATE WHO HAS RECEIVED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT  PURSUANT  TO
    4  THIS  ARTICLE  WITHIN THREE YEARS OF HIS OR HER ANTICIPATED RELEASE DATE
    5  FROM A STATE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL BE PROVIDED WITH MENTAL  HEALTH
    6  DISCHARGE  PLANNING  AND,  WHEN  NECESSARY, AN APPOINTMENT WITH A MENTAL
    7  HEALTH PROFESSIONAL IN  THE  COMMUNITY  WHO  CAN  PRESCRIBE  MEDICATIONS
    8  FOLLOWING   DISCHARGE  AND  SUFFICIENT  MENTAL  HEALTH  MEDICATIONS  AND
    9  PRESCRIPTIONS TO BRIDGE THE PERIOD BETWEEN DISCHARGE AND  SUCH  TIME  AS
   10  SUCH  MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL MAY ASSUME CARE OF THE PATIENT. INMATES
   11  WHO HAVE REFUSED MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT MAY  ALSO  BE  PROVIDED  MENTAL
   12  HEALTH  DISCHARGE  PLANNING  AND ANY NECESSARY APPOINTMENT WITH A MENTAL
   13  HEALTH PROFESSIONAL.
   14    S 2. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (b) of  section  9.27  of  the  mental
   15  hygiene  law, as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to
   16  read as follows:
   17    4. an officer of any public or well recognized charitable  institution
   18  or  agency or home, including but not limited to the superintendent of a
   19  correctional facility, as such term  is  defined  in  paragraph  (a)  of
   20  subdivision four of section two of the correction law, in whose institu-
   21  tion  the  person  alleged  to  be mentally ill resides AND THE DESIGNEE
   22  AUTHORIZED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  CORRECTIONS  AND
   23  COMMUNITY  SUPERVISION  RESPONSIBLE  FOR  COMMUNITY  SUPERVISION  IN THE
   24  REGION WHERE SUCH PERSON ALLEGED TO BE MENTALLY ILL HAS BEEN RELEASED TO
   25  ANY FORM OF SUPERVISION FOLLOWING INCARCERATION.
   26    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   27  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15567-02-4