Bill Text: NY S04567 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to authorizing certain legislators and clergymen or ministers to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S04567 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04567-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4567 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to authorizing certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 10.10 of the mental hygiene law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows: 3 (j) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all 4 secure treatment facilities established under this article: governor and 5 lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of 6 state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and 7 their accompanying staff, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court 8 and county judges, district attorneys and every clergyman or minister, 9 as such terms are defined in section two of the religious corporations 10 law, having charge of a congregation in the county wherein any such 11 facility is situated. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10768-01-9
