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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1300
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 17, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, BURDICK, WEPRIN -- read once and referred
to the Committee on 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
