Provides for the creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated individual which includes all medical records, including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and programming records.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4042
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to providing for the
creation and maintenance of digital records for each incarcerated
individual
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 112 of the correction law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
3 6. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations to estab-
4 lish and maintain a digital record which includes all medical records,
5 including but not limited to mental health records and results of drug
6 or alcohol tests, work records and evaluations, conduct records and
7 programming records, pertaining to each incarcerated individual in the
8 state. The superintendent of each correctional facility shall transmit
9 to the department such records for each incarcerated individual in such
10 facility. Such digital record shall be accessible to such incarcerated
11 individual.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
14 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
15 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
16 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07953-01-3
