Conforms the definition of an incarcerated individual with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4621
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 incarcerated individ-
uals with a serious mental illness
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 6 of
2 section 137 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws
3 of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) he or she [has a current diagnosis of, or is diagnosed at the
5 initial or any subsequent assessment conducted during the incarcerated
6 individual's segregated confinement with, one or more of the following
7 types of Axis I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of
8 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such
9 diagnoses shall be made based upon all relevant clinical factors,
10 including but not limited to symptoms related to such diagnoses:
11 (A) schizophrenia (all sub-types),
12 (B) delusional disorder,
13 (C) schizophreniform disorder,
14 (D) schizoaffective disorder,
15 (E) brief psychotic disorder,
16 (F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding intoxication and
17 withdrawal),
18 (G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified,
19 (H) major depressive disorders, or
20 (I) bipolar disorder I and II] is a person with a serious mental
21 illness, as defined in subdivision fifty-two of section 1.03 of the
22 mental hygiene law;
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03996-01-3
