Senate Bill S7182

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the recipients of reports issued regarding the death of an inmate

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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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2019-S7182 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9062
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §47, Cor L (as proposed in S.2692 & A.4336)

2019-S7182 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a report on the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to the governor, the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction.

2019-S7182 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7182 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7182
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring a report on
   the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to certain recipi-
   ents
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d)  of  subdivision  1  of  section  47  of  the
 correction  law,  as  amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending
 the correction law relating to the report the correction medical  review
 board  is  required  to  issue  regarding  the  death  of any inmate, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (d) Upon review of the cause of death  and  circumstances  surrounding
 the  death  of  any inmate, the board shall submit its report thereon to
 the commission and to the [recipients of the annual report  pursuant  to
 subdivision  seventeen  of section forty-five of this article] GOVERNOR,
 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CORRECTION AND THE CHAIRMAN OF
 THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION  and,  where
 appropriate,  make  recommendations  to  prevent  the recurrence of such
 deaths to the  commission  and  the  administrator  of  the  appropriate
 correctional  facility.  [Such] THE report PROVIDED TO THE GOVERNOR, THE
 CHAIRMAN OF THE ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON CORRECTION AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
 SENATE COMMITTEE ON CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND  CORRECTION  shall  not  be
 redacted  except  as  otherwise required to protect confidential medical
 records and behavioral health  records  in  accordance  with  state  and
 federal laws, rules, and regulations.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019,  amending  the  correction  law
 relating  to  the report the correction medical review board is required
 to issue regarding the death of any inmate, as proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08549-02-0

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