Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, to make mental health counseling available to all correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8061
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 providing mental
health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in
correctional facilities
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 22-b
2 to read as follows:
3 § 22-b. Correction officer and civilian staff mental health coun-
4 seling. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of
5 mental health, shall make mental health counseling available to all
6 correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
8 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11130-02-5
