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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7182
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 10, 2020
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
        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