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senate Bill S8750
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Luis R. Sepúlveda
(D) 32nd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
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S8750 (ACTIVE) - Details
S8750 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S8750 SPONSOR: SEPULVEDA TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law, in relation to inmates with a seri- ous mental illness PURPOSE: This bill changes the definition of serious mental illness in the correction law to match the definition in the mental hygiene law. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends subparagraph i of paragraph e of subdivision 6 of section 137 of the correction law. Section 2 provides an effective date.
S8750 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8750
I N S E N A T E
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 inmates with a seri-
ous mental illness
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 6 of
section 137 of the correction law, as added by chapter 1 of the laws of
2008, is amended to read as follows:
(i) he or she [has a current diagnosis of, or is diagnosed at the
initial or any subsequent assessment conducted during the inmate's
segregated confinement with, one or more of the following types of Axis
I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such diagnoses shall be
made based upon all relevant clinical factors, including but not limited
to symptoms related to such diagnoses:
(A) schizophrenia (all sub-types),
(B) delusional disorder,
(C) schizophreniform disorder,
(D) schizoaffective disorder,
(E) brief psychotic disorder,
(F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding intoxication and
withdrawal),
(G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified,
(H) major depressive disorders, or
(I) bipolar disorder I and II] IS A PERSON WITH A SERIOUS MENTAL
ILLNESS, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FIFTY-TWO OF SECTION 1.03 OF THE
MENTAL HYGIENE LAW;
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08337-01-7
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