Requires that the report the correction medical review board issues regarding the death of any inmate be issued to the governor, the chairman of the assembly committee on correction and the chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction, and requires that such report shall not be redacted except as otherwise required to protect confidential records.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2692
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2019
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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 the report the
correction medical review board is required to issue regarding the
death of any inmate
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 added by chapter 865 of the laws of 1975, is amended
3 to read as follows:
4 (d) Upon review of the cause of death and circumstances surrounding
5 the death of any inmate, the board shall submit its report thereon to
6 the commission and to the recipients of the annual report pursuant to
7 subdivision seventeen of section forty-five of this article and, where
8 appropriate, make recommendations to prevent the recurrence of such
9 deaths to the commission and the administrator of the appropriate
10 correctional facility. Such report shall not be redacted except as
11 otherwise required to protect confidential medical records and behav-
12 ioral health records in accordance with state and federal laws, rules,
13 and regulations.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08549-01-9
