Senate Bill S8310

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act"; repealer

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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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2025-S8310 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8603
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§330.20 & 730.50, rpld §330.20 sub 14, CP L

2025-S8310 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "forensic rehabilitation act" relating to the custody of individuals following a verdict or plea of not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect.

2025-S8310 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8310 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8310
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to enacting  the
   "forensic rehabilitation act"; and to repeal subdivision 14 of section
   330.20 of such law, relating to recommitment orders

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "forensic
 rehabilitation act".
   §  2.   Paragraphs (c), (d), (e), (g), (h) and (i) of subdivision 1 of
 section 330.20 of the criminal procedure law, paragraphs (c), (e),  (g),
 (h)  and  (i)  as added by chapter 548 of the laws of 1980 and paragraph
 (d) as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (c) ["Dangerous mental disorder"] "QUALIFYING CONDITION AND  LEVEL  OF
 IMMINENT  SERIOUS RISK" means AT THE TIME OF ANY EXAMINATION OR DETERMI-
 NATION AS TO WHETHER OR NOT A DEFENDANT HAS A QUALIFYING  CONDITION  AND
 LEVEL  OF IMMINENT SERIOUS RISK OR MENTAL ILLNESS OR SHOULD BE GRANTED A
 FURLOUGH OR ANY OTHER PRIVILEGE: (i) that a [defendant currently suffers
 from] PERSON AT THE TIME OF EXAMINATION OR DETERMINATION HAS  a  "mental
 illness"  as  that term is defined in subdivision twenty of section 1.03
 of the mental hygiene law, and (ii) that because of such condition  [he]
 SUCH  PERSON  currently  constitutes a RISK OF IMMINENT SERIOUS physical
 danger to [himself] THEMSELF or others BASED ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S ACTIONS
 AT THAT TIME. ALL ASSESSMENTS OF THE RISK OF IMMINENT  SERIOUS  PHYSICAL
 DANGER  SHALL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT ANY AND ALL EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT THE
 INDIVIDUAL AT THAT TIME DOES NOT CURRENTLY POSE SUCH A DANGER, INCLUDING
 ASSESSMENTS MADE BY PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS AND THE INDIVIDUAL'S
 CURRENT BEHAVIORS,  PARTICIPATION  IN  TREATMENT  AND  PROGRAMMING,  AND
 GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13182-01-5
 S. 8310                             2
              

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