Bill Text: NY A02081 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits admission of sex offenders to state operated psychiatric centers which share facilities with a children's psychiatric center.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to mental health [A02081 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02081-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2081

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. COLTON, STECK -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to treatment of  sex
          offenders in certain facilities

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

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  9.65 to read as follows:
     3  § 9.65 Treatment of sex offenders in certain facilities.
     4    Any  facility  operated  by  the  state, which provides non-emergency,
     5  clinical outpatient or inpatient psychiatric treatment and  which  oper-
     6  ates in the same building as a children's psychiatric center operated by
     7  the  state  shall  determine, prior to the treatment or admission of any
     8  person, whether such person is a sex offender, as defined by subdivision
     9  one of section one hundred  sixty-eight-a  of  the  correction  law.  No
    10  facility which operates in the same building as a children's psychiatric
    11  center shall admit or treat a registered sex offender at such location.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05653-01-3
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