Bill Text: NY A01300 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Conforms the definition of an incarcerated individual with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - substituted by s4621 [A01300 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01300-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1300

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY, BURDICK, WEPRIN -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to incarcerated individ-
          uals with a serious mental illness

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (e) of subdivision 6 of
     2  section 137 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws
     3  of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) he or she [has a current diagnosis of,  or  is  diagnosed  at  the
     5  initial  or  any subsequent assessment conducted during the incarcerated
     6  individual's segregated confinement with, one or more of  the  following
     7  types  of  Axis  I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of
     8  the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual  of  Mental  Disorders,  and  such
     9  diagnoses  shall  be  made  based  upon  all  relevant clinical factors,
    10  including but not limited to symptoms related to such diagnoses:
    11    (A) schizophrenia (all sub-types),
    12    (B) delusional disorder,
    13    (C) schizophreniform disorder,
    14    (D) schizoaffective disorder,
    15    (E) brief psychotic disorder,
    16    (F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding  intoxication  and
    17  withdrawal),
    18    (G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified,
    19    (H) major depressive disorders, or
    20    (I)  bipolar  disorder  I  and  II]  is a person with a serious mental
    21  illness, as defined in subdivision fifty-two  of  section  1.03  of  the
    22  mental hygiene law;
    23    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    24  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03996-01-3