Expands the definition of "mental abnormality", for purposes of sex offender civil commitment or supervision, to include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychopathy.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7794
IN SENATE
May 12, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the department of
"mental abnormality" for purposes of civil commitment or supervision
of sex offenders
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (i) of section 10.03 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (i) "Mental abnormality" means a congenital or acquired condition,
5 disease or disorder including, but not limited to, antisocial personal-
6 ity disorder, borderline personality disorder and psychopathy, that
7 affects the emotional, cognitive, or volitional capacity of a person in
8 a manner that predisposes him or her to the commission of conduct
9 constituting a sex offense and that results in that person having seri-
10 ous difficulty in controlling such conduct.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11773-02-6
