Bill Text: NY A11098 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing correctional health care services; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide public health care programs for inmates; and establishes requirements for the correctional health care system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-05 - referred to correction [A11098 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11098-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11098
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 5, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. O'Donnell)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing correction-
          al health care services
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 140-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  140-a.  Correctional  health  care  services.  The department shall
     4  provide public health care programs for  inmates  as  well  as  clinical
     5  services.  Health  care services must meet the professional standards of
     6  the community and must be performed by appropriately trained and creden-
     7  tialed providers who are properly supervised and who use clinical proto-
     8  cols. These services should meet public health goals and objectives  set
     9  by  the  department in collaboration with the department of health.  The
    10  commissioner or his or her designee shall act as a  liaison  with  local
    11  correctional  facilities  and  the  department  of health to protect and
    12  promote the health of the inmate population as well as the community  at
    13  large. The correctional health care system shall:
    14    1.  maintain  the capacity to address individual clinical needs, carry
    15  out department-wide functions and develop and  implement  public  health
    16  programs for the inmate population;
    17    2. collaborate with the department of health, social services agencies
    18  and  relevant  non-profit organizations to establish and maintain public
    19  health programs within the department to ensure that  the  clinical  and
    20  public health needs of the inmate population are met;
    21    3.  include  preventative  health  maintenance  schedules,  electronic
    22  records, surveillance data, and access to relevant public health  regis-
    23  tries,  including  access  to adult vaccinations, in correctional health
    24  information systems;
    25    4. develop and implement health promotion programs  according  to  the
    26  needs of the inmate population; and
    27    5.  include correctional services and programs in department of health
    28  public health initiatives.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    30  law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16152-01-8