Do you support this bill?

Assembly Bill A7567

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to residential sex offender treatment programs

download bill text pdf

Sponsored By

Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

Please enter your contact information

Home address is used to determine the senate district in which you reside. Your support or opposition to this bill is then shared immediately with the senator who represents you.

Optional services from the NY State Senate:

Create an account. An account allows you to officially support or oppose key legislation, sign petitions with a single click, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.

Include a custom message for your Senator? (Optional)

Enter a message to your senator. Many New Yorkers use this to share the reasoning behind their support or opposition to the bill. Others might share a personal anecdote about how the bill would affect them or people they care about.

Actions

2009-A7567 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง622, Cor L

2009-A7567 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to residential sex offender treatment programs.

2009-A7567 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7567

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY -- (at request of the Department of Correc-
  tional  Services)  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on
  Correction

AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  residential  sex
  offender treatment programs

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 622  of  the  correction  law,  as
added by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  4.  Each residential program shall be staffed with a licensed psychol-
ogist who shall provide clinical supervision  to  the  treatment  staff,
review, approve and modify treatment plans as appropriate for individual
inmates, provide clinical assessments for participating inmates, observe
and  participate  in  group sessions and make treatment recommendations.
NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING, IF THE DEPARTMENT IS UNSUCCESSFUL IN  ITS
ATTEMPTS  TO  HIRE  A LICENSED PSYCHOLOGIST FOR A PARTICULAR RESIDENTIAL
PROGRAM, DESPITE HAVING MADE A DILIGENT AND SUSTAINED EFFORT AT RECRUIT-
MENT, IT MAY IN THE ALTERNATIVE HIRE A PSYCHOLOGIST WHO OTHERWISE SATIS-
FIES THE QUALIFICATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF  CIVIL  SERVICE
FOR THE POSITION OF PSYCHOLOGIST. Each residential program shall also be
staffed  with  a  licensed clinical social worker or other mental health
professional who shall be  knowledgeable  about  the  administration  of
testing  instruments  that  are  designed to measure the degree of a sex
offender's psychopathy and  his  or  her  program  needs.  The  assigned
[licensed]  psychologist  shall also be knowledgeable about the applica-
tion of such testing instruments.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06859-02-9

Comments

Open Legislation is a forum for New York State legislation. All comments are subject to review and community moderation is encouraged.

Comments deemed off-topic, commercial, campaign-related, self-promotional; or that contain profanity, hate or toxic speech; or that link to sites outside of the nysenate.gov domain are not permitted, and will not be published. Attempts to intimidate and silence contributors or deliberately deceive the public, including excessive or extraneous posting/posts, or coordinated activity, are prohibited and may result in the temporary or permanent banning of the user. Comment moderation is generally performed Monday through Friday. By contributing or voting you agree to the Terms of Participation and verify you are over 13.

Create an account. An account allows you to sign petitions with a single click, officially support or oppose key legislation, and follow issues, committees, and bills that matter to you. When you create an account, you agree to this platform's terms of participation.