Bill Text: NY A07193 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A07193 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07193-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7193

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the removal of incar-
          cerated individuals diagnosed with mental  illness  to  a  residential
          mental health treatment unit

          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 d of subdivision 6 of section
     2  137 of the correction law, as separately amended by chapters 93 and  322
     3  of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  Except  as  set  forth in clause (E) of subparagraph (ii) of this
     5  paragraph, the department, in consultation  with  mental  health  clini-
     6  cians,  shall  divert or remove an incarcerated [individuals] individual
     7  who at any time has been diagnosed with a  serious  mental  illness,  as
     8  defined  in  subparagraphs (i),  (iii), (iv) and (v) of paragraph (e) of
     9  this subdivision, from segregated confinement or confinement in a  resi-
    10  dential rehabilitation unit, where such confinement could potentially be
    11  for  a  period  in excess of thirty days, to a residential mental health
    12  treatment unit. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prevent the
    13  disciplinary process from proceeding in accordance with department rules
    14  and regulations for disciplinary hearings.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01122-01-3