Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and members of the legislature, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage its facilities as determined by the director of the facility, to visit any facility designated by the commissioner of mental health for care and treatment.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, OBERACKER, RHOADS, SALAZAR --
read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to certain persons
authorized to visit inmate-patient facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 29.27 of the mental hygiene law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision (k) to read as follows:
3 (k) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure any
4 facility designated by the commissioner for care and treatment under
5 this section, provided that such persons shall make a concerted effort
6 to notify the director of any facility, as soon as practicable, that a
7 visit will occur: the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of
8 general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and
9 members of the legislature. The director of a facility shall be author-
10 ized to deny any visit, if the director determines that the visit would
11 interfere with the regularly scheduled therapeutic activities or there
12 would be an impact upon the ability to manage such facility. No other
13 person not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter a
14 facility of the office except by authority of the commissioner under
15 such regulations, as the commissioner shall prescribe.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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