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Assembly Bill A11098

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to providing correctional health care services

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2017-A11098 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §140-a, Cor L

2017-A11098 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing correctional health care services; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to provide public health care programs for inmates; and establishes requirements for the correctional health care system.

2017-A11098 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11098
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. O'Donnell)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing correction-
   al health care services
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 140-a
 to read as follows:
   §  140-A.  CORRECTIONAL  HEALTH  CARE  SERVICES.  THE DEPARTMENT SHALL
 PROVIDE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE PROGRAMS FOR  INMATES  AS  WELL  AS  CLINICAL
 SERVICES.  HEALTH  CARE SERVICES MUST MEET THE PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF
 THE COMMUNITY AND MUST BE PERFORMED BY APPROPRIATELY TRAINED AND CREDEN-
 TIALED PROVIDERS WHO ARE PROPERLY SUPERVISED AND WHO USE CLINICAL PROTO-
 COLS. THESE SERVICES SHOULD MEET PUBLIC HEALTH GOALS AND OBJECTIVES  SET
 BY  THE  DEPARTMENT IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.  THE
 COMMISSIONER OR HIS OR HER DESIGNEE SHALL ACT AS A  LIAISON  WITH  LOCAL
 CORRECTIONAL  FACILITIES  AND  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF HEALTH TO PROTECT AND
 PROMOTE THE HEALTH OF THE INMATE POPULATION AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY  AT
 LARGE. THE CORRECTIONAL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM SHALL:
   1.  MAINTAIN  THE CAPACITY TO ADDRESS INDIVIDUAL CLINICAL NEEDS, CARRY
 OUT DEPARTMENT-WIDE FUNCTIONS AND DEVELOP AND  IMPLEMENT  PUBLIC  HEALTH
 PROGRAMS FOR THE INMATE POPULATION;
   2. COLLABORATE WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCIES
 AND  RELEVANT  NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN PUBLIC
 HEALTH PROGRAMS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE THAT  THE  CLINICAL  AND
 PUBLIC HEALTH NEEDS OF THE INMATE POPULATION ARE MET;
   3.  INCLUDE  PREVENTATIVE  HEALTH  MAINTENANCE  SCHEDULES,  ELECTRONIC
 RECORDS, SURVEILLANCE DATA, AND ACCESS TO RELEVANT PUBLIC HEALTH  REGIS-
 TRIES,  INCLUDING  ACCESS  TO ADULT VACCINATIONS, IN CORRECTIONAL HEALTH
 INFORMATION SYSTEMS;
   4. DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMS  ACCORDING  TO  THE
 NEEDS OF THE INMATE POPULATION; AND
   5.  INCLUDE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES AND PROGRAMS IN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
 PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.

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