Bill Text: NY A04507 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - ordered to third reading cal.170 [A04507 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04507-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4507
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to inmates with a  seri-
          ous 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 added by chapter 1 of the laws of
     3  2008, 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 inmate's
     6  segregated confinement with, one or more of the following types of  Axis
     7  I  diagnoses,  as described in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic
     8  and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such diagnoses shall  be
     9  made based upon all relevant clinical factors, including but not limited
    10  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.
                                                                   LBD07687-01-9