Assembly Bill A2491

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires inmates to be evaluated and treated for alcoholism and drug abuse

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Alcoholism And Drug Abuse
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §22.13, Ment Hyg L; amd §2, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A5285

2011-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires inmates to be evaluated and treated for alcoholism and drug abuse.

2011-A2491 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2491

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 19, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. MENG -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law  and  the  correction  law,  in
  relation to alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs for inmates

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

  Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
22.13 to read as follows:
S 22.13 EVALUATION  AND TREATMENT OF PERSONS COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF
          THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.
  PERSONS COMMITTED TO THE CUSTODY OF  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES  UNDER AN INDETERMINATE OR DETERMINATE SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT
SHALL BE EVALUATED AND TREATED FOR ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE  ABUSE  DEPEND-
ENCE  PROBLEMS  BY  PERSONS  WHO  ARE CREDENTIALED ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE
ABUSE COUNSELORS BY THE OFFICE. SUCH EVALUATION AND  TREATMENT  PROGRAMS
SHALL  BE DEVELOPED IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL
SERVICES.
  S 2. Subdivision  17 of section 2 of the correction law, as  added  by
chapter 338 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
  17. "Alcohol and substance abuse treatment [facility] PROGRAM."  (A) A
correctional  [facility]  PROGRAM  designed  [to  house  medium security
inmates as defined by department rules and regulations and operated] for
the purpose of providing intensive alcohol and substance abuse treatment
services TO INMATES  OF  THE  DEPARTMENT.  Such  services  shall  ensure
comprehensive  treatment  for alcoholism and substance abuse PURSUANT TO
PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION to ALL inmates UNDER  THE  CUSTODY  OF
THE  DEPARTMENT  who  have been identified by the commissioner or his or
her designee, A COURT AT THE TIME SENTENCE IS IMPOSED, OR  BY  A  PERSON
WHO  IS  A  CREDENTIALED  ALCOHOL  AND  SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR BY THE
OFFICE OF ALCOHOL AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, as having had  or  pres-
ently having a history of alcoholism or substance abuse.  SUCH TREATMENT

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05569-01-1

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