STATE OF NEW YORK
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4904
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- (at request of the State Commission of
Correction) -- 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 health care services
of county jail inmates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 501 of the correction law is amended to read as
2 follows:
3 § 501. Jail physician. 1. The board of supervisors of each county,
4 except New York, must appoint some reputable physician, duly authorized
5 to practice medicine, as the physician to the jail of the county. If
6 there is more than one jail they must appoint a physician to each. The
7 physician to a jail holds his office at the pleasure of the board which
8 appointed him, except in the county of Kings. In that county, the term
9 of his office is three years.
10 2. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, a county board of
11 supervisors may instead procure the services of a professional partner-
12 ship, a professional service corporation, a professional service limited
13 liability company or a registered limited liability company, duly
14 authorized to practice medicine in this state, for the purpose of
15 providing health services to the inmates of the jail. Any agreement or
16 contract for the provision of such services, and any amendment or
17 renewal thereof, shall be subject to the approval of the attorney gener-
18 al.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09595-01-5
