Bill Text: NY S04904 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4904 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to health care services of county jail inmates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S04904 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4904
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GALLIVAN -- (at request of the State Commission of
         Correction) -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be
         committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
       AN  ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to health care services
         of county jail inmates
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  501  of the correction law is amended to read as
    2  follows:
    3    S 501. Jail physician. 1. The board of  supervisors  of  each  county,
    4  except  New York, must appoint some reputable physician, duly authorized
    5  to practice medicine, as the physician to the jail  of  the  county.  If
    6  there  is  more than one jail they must appoint a physician to each. The
    7  physician to a jail holds his office at the pleasure of the board  which
    8  appointed  him,  except in the county of Kings. In that county, the term
    9  of his office is three years.
   10    2. NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION, A COUNTY BOARD  OF
   11  SUPERVISORS  MAY INSTEAD PROCURE THE SERVICES OF A PROFESSIONAL PARTNER-
   12  SHIP, A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION, A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LIMITED
   13  LIABILITY COMPANY  OR  A  REGISTERED  LIMITED  LIABILITY  COMPANY,  DULY
   14  AUTHORIZED  TO  PRACTICE  MEDICINE  IN  THIS  STATE,  FOR THE PURPOSE OF
   15  PROVIDING HEALTH SERVICES TO THE INMATES OF THE JAIL. ANY  AGREEMENT  OR
   16  CONTRACT  FOR  THE  PROVISION  OF  SUCH  SERVICES,  AND ANY AMENDMENT OR
   17  RENEWAL THEREOF, SHALL BE SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL OF THE ATTORNEY GENER-
   18  AL.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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