Establishes the department of corrections and community supervision shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education and counseling resources.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5945
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- 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 human immunodeficien-
cy virus (HIV) prevention
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 76 of the correction law, as
2 amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. (a) Prior to the release of an inmate from a correctional facility,
4 the department shall provide such inmate with information on transi-
5 tional services available in the county or city where such inmate is
6 scheduled to be released. Such information shall include programs
7 designed to promote the successful and productive reentry and reinte-
8 gration of an inmate into society including medical and mental health
9 services, HIV/AIDS services, educational, vocational and employment
10 services, alcohol or substance abuse treatment and housing services. The
11 department shall maintain a current list of transitional services which
12 shall be updated regularly in order to effectuate the purposes of this
13 section. Where appropriate, the department shall provide assistance to
14 an inmate in contacting a program or service provider prior to such
15 inmate's release to the community.
16 (b) Upon discharge of an inmate from a correctional facility, the
17 department shall provide such inmate with educational information about
18 the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection,
19 instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing upon release, includ-
20 ing contact information for HIV counseling and testing service providers
21 located in the county or city in which such inmate intends to reside
22 upon release, and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education
23 and counseling resources located in the county or city in which such
24 inmate intends to reside upon release.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04695-01-9
