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S04295 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4295
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 7, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims,  Crime  and
          Correction
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend the correction law, in relation to requiring a mental
          health medical professional to  examine  incarcerated  individuals  in
          solitary confinement

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (c) of  subdivision  6  of  section  137  of  the
     2  correction  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  322  of the laws of 2021, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) Where such confinement is for a period in  excess  of  twenty-four
     5  hours,  the superintendent shall arrange for a medical professional with
     6  an expertise in mental health  and  for  the  facility  health  services
     7  director, or a registered nurse or physician's associate approved by the
     8  facility  health services director to visit such incarcerated individual
     9  at the expiration of twenty-four hours and at least once in every  twen-
    10  ty-four  hour  period thereafter, during the period of such confinement,
    11  to examine into the state of health of the incarcerated individual,  and
    12  the  superintendent  shall give full consideration to any recommendation
    13  that may be made by the facility health services director  for  measures
    14  with  respect  to  dietary  needs  or  conditions of confinement of such
    15  incarcerated individual required to maintain the health of  such  incar-
    16  cerated individual; and
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08555-01-3
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