Bill Text: NY S04621 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-15 - returned to senate [S04621 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04621-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4621

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 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