Bill Text: NY S06916 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of degrees of injuries that may result from attacks by persons confined to state forensic psychiatric centers.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - SIGNED CHAP.375 [S06916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06916-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6916--C
            Cal. No. 610
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 7, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. ORTT, FUNKE, MURPHY -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health
          and  Developmental Disabilities -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- reported favorably from said  commit-
          tee,  ordered  to first and second report, ordered to a third reading,
          passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote  recon-
          sidered,  restored  to  third  reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
          retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the powers of the
          commissioner of the office of mental health
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (k) to read as follows:
     3    (k)  The  commissioner shall develop clear and detailed definitions of
     4  at least four categories of types of injuries that  a  staff  member  or
     5  person  confined  may  experience  as  the result of an assault by or an
     6  altercation between a person confined and  any  staff  member  or  other
     7  person  confined  in  state forensic psychiatric centers as such term is
     8  defined in section 7.17 of this article. On at least a  quarterly  basis
     9  beginning  in January of each year, the commissioner shall report to the
    10  legislature on the number of types of injuries within the detailed cate-
    11  gories required by this subdivision.
    12    § 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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