Relates to authorizing certain legislators, clergymen and ministers to visit office of mental health and office for people with developmental disabilities facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to authorizing
certain legislators to visit office of mental health and office for
people with developmental disabilities operated and certified facili-
ties
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7.17 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision (g) to read as follows:
3 (g) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all
4 facilities and hospitals operated under this article: governor and lieu-
5 tenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state,
6 comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and their
7 accompanying staff, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and
8 county judges, district attorneys and every clergyman or minister, as
9 such terms are defined in section two of the religious corporations law,
10 having charge of a congregation in the county wherein any such facility
11 is situated.
12 § 2. Section 13.17 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a
13 new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
14 (e) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all
15 facilities and hospitals operated under this article: governor and lieu-
16 tenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state,
17 comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and their
18 accompanying staff, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and
19 county judges, district attorneys and every clergyman or minister, as
20 such terms are defined in section two of the religious corporations law,
21 having charge of a congregation in the county wherein any such facility
22 is situated.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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