Senate Bill S5976

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires a mental health medical professional to examine inmates in solitary confinement

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

  • 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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2019-S5976 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §137, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4984
2023-2024: S4295

2019-S5976 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a mental health medical professional to examine inmates in solitary confinement when such inmate is in such confinement for a period in excess of twenty-four hours.

2019-S5976 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S5976 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5976
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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 requiring a mental
   health medical professional to examine inmates in solitary confinement

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision  6  of section 137 of the
 correction law, as amended by chapter  490  of  the  laws  of  1974,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (c)  Where  such  confinement is for a period in excess of twenty-four
 hours, the superintendent shall arrange FOR A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL  WITH
 AN  EXPERTISE  IN  MENTAL  HEALTH  AND  for the facility health services
 director, or a registered nurse or physician's associate approved by the
 facility health services director to visit such inmate at the expiration
 of twenty-four hours and at least once in every twenty-four hour  period
 thereafter,  during  the period of such confinement, to examine into the
 state of health of the inmate, and the superintendent  shall  give  full
 consideration  to  any  recommendation  that may be made by the facility
 health services director for measures with respect to dietary  needs  or
 conditions of confinement of such inmate required to maintain the health
 of such inmate; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11743-01-9

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