S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3102
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 23, 2025
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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 incarcerated individ-
uals with a serious mental illness
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 6 of
section 137 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws
of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
(i) [he or she has a current diagnosis of, or is diagnosed at the
initial or any subsequent assessment conducted during the incarcerated
individual's segregated confinement with, one or more of the following
types of Axis I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of
the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such
diagnoses shall be made based upon all relevant clinical factors,
including but not limited to symptoms related to such diagnoses:
(A) schizophrenia (all sub-types),
(B) delusional disorder,
(C) schizophreniform disorder,
(D) schizoaffective disorder,
(E) brief psychotic disorder,
(F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding intoxication and
withdrawal),
(G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified,
(H) major depressive disorders, or
(I) bipolar disorder I and II] SUCH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL IS A
PERSON WITH A SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FIFTY-
TWO OF SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW;
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06492-01-5