Bill Text: NY A09062 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a report on the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to the governor, the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - SIGNED CHAP.80 [A09062 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09062-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9062 IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring a report on the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to certain recipi- ents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 47 of the 2 correction law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending 3 the correction law relating to the report the correction medical review 4 board is required to issue regarding the death of any inmate, as 5 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, is amended to 6 read as follows: 7 (d) Upon review of the cause of death and circumstances surrounding 8 the death of any inmate, the board shall submit its report thereon to 9 the commission and to the [recipients of the annual report pursuant to10subdivision seventeen of section forty-five of this article] governor, 11 the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of 12 the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction and, where 13 appropriate, make recommendations to prevent the recurrence of such 14 deaths to the commission and the administrator of the appropriate 15 correctional facility. [Such] The report provided to the governor, the 16 chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the 17 senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction shall not be 18 redacted except as otherwise required to protect confidential medical 19 records and behavioral health records in accordance with state and 20 federal laws, rules, and regulations. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 22 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the correction law 23 relating to the report the correction medical review board is required 24 to issue regarding the death of any inmate, as proposed in legislative 25 bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08549-02-0