STATE OF NEW YORK
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2506
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BENDETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to addiction counseling
services for incarcerated individuals
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 628
2 to read as follows:
3 § 628. Addiction counseling program. The commissioner, in conjunction
4 with the office of addiction services and supports, shall establish a
5 program to be administered at correctional facilities within the depart-
6 ment in the state, for the purpose of offering addiction counseling
7 services for any incarcerated individual in such facilities suffering
8 from a substance use disorder. After a medical screening, incarcerated
9 individuals who are determined to suffer from a substance use disorder
10 shall be offered placement in an addiction counseling program. Placement
11 in such program shall not be mandatory. Each participating incarcerated
12 individual shall work with an authorized specialist to determine an
13 individualized treatment plan, including an appropriate level of coun-
14 seling.
15 § 2. Section 45 of the correction law is amended by adding a new
16 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
17 20. Establish standards and guidelines for a program of addiction
18 counseling services for incarcerated individuals in county jails and/or
19 county correctional facilities equivalent to the program established in
20 state correctional facilities pursuant to section six hundred twenty-
21 eight of this chapter.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03591-01-5
