Bill Text: NY A04042 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4042

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to correction [A04042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04042-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4042

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation  to  providing  for  the
          creation  and  maintenance  of  digital  records for each incarcerated
          individual

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations  to  estab-
     4  lish  and  maintain a digital record which includes all medical records,
     5  including but not limited to mental health records and results  of  drug
     6  or  alcohol  tests,  work  records  and evaluations, conduct records and
     7  programming records, pertaining to each incarcerated individual  in  the
     8  state.  The  superintendent of each correctional facility shall transmit
     9  to the department such records for each incarcerated individual in  such
    10  facility.  Such  digital record shall be accessible to such incarcerated
    11  individual.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    14  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    15  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    16  completed on or before such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07953-01-3