Bill Text: NY S02209 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to annual reporting on substance use disorder in incarcerated individuals; requires the office of addiction services and supports to monitor programs providing treatment to incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities and provide an annual report.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-10-23 - SIGNED CHAP.494 [S02209 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02209-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2209 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, BIAGGI, BROOKS, KAPLAN, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to annual reporting on substance use disorder in incarcerated individuals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision (h) of section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law, 2 as amended by section 118-f of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of the 3 laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 4 (h) The office of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services 5 and supports shall monitor programs providing care and treatment to 6 [inmates] incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities operated 7 by the department of corrections and community supervision who have a 8 history of alcohol or substance [abuse] use disorder or dependence. The 9 office shall also develop guidelines for the operation of alcohol and 10 substance [abuse] use disorder treatment programs in such correctional 11 facilities, based on best practices, and tailored to the nature of the 12 individual's substance use, history of past treatment, and history of 13 mental illness or trauma, which may include harm reduction strategies, 14 in order to ensure that such programs sufficiently meet the needs of 15 [inmates] incarcerated individuals with a history of alcohol or 16 substance [abuse] use disorder or dependence and promote the successful 17 transition to treatment in the community upon release. No later than the 18 first day of December of each year, the office shall submit a report 19 regarding: (1) the adequacy and effectiveness of alcohol and substance 20 [abuse] use disorder treatment programs operated by the department of 21 corrections and community supervision; (2) the total number of incarcer- 22 ated individuals in correctional facilities that have been screened for, 23 and determined to have, a substance use disorder; (3) information 24 regarding which substances incarcerated individuals are most dependent EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00543-01-1S. 2209 2 1 upon and the available treatment for such individuals within each 2 correctional facility; (4) the total number of individuals who partic- 3 ipate in each of the treatment programs operated by the department of 4 corrections and community supervision; and (5) the total number of indi- 5 viduals who participated in a substance use disorder treatment program 6 but failed to complete such program, as well as whether such failure to 7 complete the program was a result of disciplinary action taken by the 8 facility against the individual for instances unrelated to their partic- 9 ipation in the treatment program. The department of corrections and 10 community supervision shall provide the office with information needed 11 to complete this report. Such report shall be sent to the governor, the 12 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the 13 chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction, 14 and the chairman of the assembly committee on correction. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
