Assembly Bill A9678

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires notification of an incarcerated individual's emergency contacts when such incarcerated individual attempts suicide or is hospitalized

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9056
Current Committee:
Assembly Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Add §17, Cor L

2023-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of corrections and community supervision within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, to notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated individual or other such individual.

2023-A9678 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9678
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  requiring  notifica-
   tion  of  an  incarcerated  individual's  emergency contacts when such
   incarcerated individual attempts suicide or is hospitalized
 
   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 17 to
 read as follows:
   §  17.  NOTICE TO EMERGENCY CONTACTS.  WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF THE
 ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OR HOSPITALIZATION OF AN  INCARCERATED  INDIVIDUAL  OR
 ANY  OTHER  INDIVIDUAL  OCCURRING  IN THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT, THE
 DEPARTMENT SHALL NOTIFY THE  EMERGENCY  CONTACTS  OF  SUCH  INCARCERATED
 INDIVIDUAL OR OTHER SUCH INDIVIDUAL.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14979-01-4

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