Requires the department of corrections and community supervision within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, to notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated individual or other such individual.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9056
IN SENATE
April 15, 2024
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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 requiring notifica-
tion of an incarcerated individual's emergency contacts when such
incarcerated individual attempts suicide or is hospitalized
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 17 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 17. Notice to emergency contacts. Within twenty-four hours of the
4 attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or
5 any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, the
6 department shall notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated
7 individual or other such individual.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14979-01-4
