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Senate Bill S728

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to persons authorized to visit inmate-patient facilities of the department of mental hygiene

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2025-S728 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1519
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §29.27, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8194
2019-2020: S1333
2021-2022: S2269
2023-2024: S231, A5853

2025-S728 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and members of the legislature, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the director of the facility, to visit any facility designated by the commissioner of mental health for care and treatment.

2025-S728 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S728 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    728
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, OBERACKER, RHOADS, SALAZAR --
   read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
   the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to certain persons
   authorized to visit inmate-patient facilities

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  29.27  of  the  mental hygiene law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision (k) to read as follows:
   (K) THE FOLLOWING PERSONS SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO VISIT AT PLEASURE ANY
 FACILITY DESIGNATED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR  CARE  AND  TREATMENT  UNDER
 THIS  SECTION,  PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSONS SHALL MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORT
 TO NOTIFY THE DIRECTOR OF ANY FACILITY, AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE,  THAT  A
 VISIT  WILL OCCUR: THE GOVERNOR AND LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, COMMISSIONER OF
 GENERAL SERVICES, SECRETARY OF STATE, COMPTROLLER, ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND
 MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.  THE DIRECTOR OF A FACILITY SHALL BE AUTHOR-
 IZED TO DENY ANY VISIT, IF THE DIRECTOR DETERMINES THAT THE VISIT  WOULD
 INTERFERE  WITH  THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITIES OR THERE
 WOULD BE AN IMPACT UPON THE ABILITY TO MANAGE SUCH FACILITY.   NO  OTHER
 PERSON  NOT  OTHERWISE  AUTHORIZED  BY LAW SHALL BE PERMITTED TO ENTER A
 FACILITY OF THE OFFICE EXCEPT BY AUTHORITY  OF  THE  COMMISSIONER  UNDER
 SUCH REGULATIONS, AS THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PRESCRIBE.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD02817-01-5

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