Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4958
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS, SAYEGH, ZINERMAN, GIGLIO, SIMON, FORREST,
REYES, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, TAYLOR, LUCAS, LEVENBERG, HYNDMAN, EPSTEIN,
TAPIA, MITAYNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing for the
creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated
individual
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
7. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO ESTAB-
LISH AND MAINTAIN A DIGITAL RECORD WHICH INCLUDES ALL MEDICAL RECORDS,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO MENTAL HEALTH RECORDS AND RESULTS OF DRUG
OR ALCOHOL TESTS, WORK RECORDS AND EVALUATIONS, CONDUCT RECORDS AND
PROGRAMMING RECORDS, PERTAINING TO EACH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL IN THE
STATE. THE SUPERINTENDENT OF EACH CORRECTIONAL FACILITY SHALL TRANSMIT
TO THE DEPARTMENT SUCH RECORDS FOR EACH INCARCERATED INDIVIDUAL IN SUCH
FACILITY. SUCH DIGITAL RECORD SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE TO SUCH INCARCERATED
INDIVIDUAL.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00828-01-5
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