Requires a report on the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to the governor, the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9062
IN ASSEMBLY
January 13, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to requiring a report on
the death and circumstances of an inmate to be sent to certain recipi-
ents
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 47 of the
2 correction law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending
3 the correction law relating to the report the correction medical review
4 board is required to issue regarding the death of any inmate, as
5 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, is amended to
6 read as follows:
7 (d) Upon review of the cause of death and circumstances surrounding
8 the death of any inmate, the board shall submit its report thereon to
9 the commission and to the [recipients of the annual report pursuant to
10 subdivision seventeen of section forty-five of this article] governor,
11 the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of
12 the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction and, where
13 appropriate, make recommendations to prevent the recurrence of such
14 deaths to the commission and the administrator of the appropriate
15 correctional facility. [Such] The report provided to the governor, the
16 chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the
17 senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction shall not be
18 redacted except as otherwise required to protect confidential medical
19 records and behavioral health records in accordance with state and
20 federal laws, rules, and regulations.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
22 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the correction law
23 relating to the report the correction medical review board is required
24 to issue regarding the death of any inmate, as proposed in legislative
25 bills numbers S. 2692 and A. 4336, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08549-02-0
