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Assembly Bill A11031

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to authorizing certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities

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2019-A11031 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4567
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10.10, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3114, S2056
2023-2024: A3492

2019-A11031 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to authorizing certain legislators and clergymen or ministers to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities.

2019-A11031 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11031
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              October 7, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 10.10 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
   (J) THE FOLLOWING PERSONS SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO VISIT AT PLEASURE ALL
 SECURE TREATMENT FACILITIES ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS ARTICLE: GOVERNOR AND
 LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR,  COMMISSIONER  OF  GENERAL  SERVICES,  SECRETARY OF
 STATE, COMPTROLLER AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE  AND
 THEIR  ACCOMPANYING STAFF, JUDGES OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, SUPREME COURT
 AND COUNTY JUDGES, DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AND EVERY CLERGYMAN  OR  MINISTER,
 AS  SUCH  TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE RELIGIOUS CORPORATIONS
 LAW, HAVING CHARGE OF A CONGREGATION IN  THE  COUNTY  WHEREIN  ANY  SUCH
 FACILITY IS SITUATED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10768-01-9

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