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Assembly Bill A4647

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to addiction counseling services for inmates

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2021-A4647 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §626, amd §45, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A3696
2025-2026: A2506

2021-A4647 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to addiction counseling services for inmates.

2021-A4647 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4647
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ASHBY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to addiction  counseling
   services for inmates
 
   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  626
 to read as follows:
   §  626. ADDICTION COUNSELING PROGRAM. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONJUNCTION
 WITH THE OFFICE OF ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL ESTAB-
 LISH A PROGRAM TO BE ADMINISTERED AT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES WITHIN  THE
 DEPARTMENT  IN  THE  STATE,  FOR THE PURPOSE OF OFFERING ADDICTION COUN-
 SELING SERVICES FOR ANY INMATE  IN  SUCH  FACILITIES  SUFFERING  FROM  A
 SUBSTANCE  USE  DISORDER.    AFTER  A MEDICAL SCREENING, INMATES WHO ARE
 DETERMINED TO SUFFER FROM A SUBSTANCE  USE  DISORDER  SHALL  BE  OFFERED
 PLACEMENT  IN AN ADDICTION COUNSELING PROGRAM. PLACEMENT IN SUCH PROGRAM
 SHALL NOT BE MANDATORY.  EACH PARTICIPATING INMATE SHALL  WORK  WITH  AN
 AUTHORIZED  SPECIALIST  TO  DETERMINE  AN INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT PLAN,
 INCLUDING AN APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF COUNSELING.
   § 2. Section 45 of the correction law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 18 to read as follows:
   18.  ESTABLISH  STANDARDS  AND  GUIDELINES  FOR A PROGRAM OF ADDICTION
 COUNSELING SERVICES FOR INMATES IN COUNTY JAILS  AND/OR  COUNTY  CORREC-
 TIONAL FACILITIES EQUIVALENT TO THE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED IN STATE CORREC-
 TIONAL  FACILITIES  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-SIX OF THIS
 CHAPTER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06335-01-1

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