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A05941 Summary:

BILL NOA05941 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORDilan

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COSPNSRShimsky, Levenberg

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §137, Cor L

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Relates to the removal of incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential mental health treatment unit.

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BILL NOA05941 

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02/25/2025referred to correction

01/07/2026referred to correction

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5941

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the removal of incar-
 cerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness to a residential
 mental health treatment unit

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph d of subdivision 6 of section
 2 137 of the correction law, as separately amended by chapters 93 and 322
 3 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (i) Except as set forth in clause (E) of subparagraph (ii) of this
 5 paragraph, the department, in consultation with mental health clini-
 6 cians, shall divert or remove an incarcerated [individuals] individual
 7 who at any time has been diagnosed with a serious mental illness, as
 8 defined in subparagraphs (i), (iii), (iv) and (v) of paragraph (e) of
 9 this subdivision, from segregated confinement or confinement in a resi-
 10 dential rehabilitation unit, where such confinement could potentially be
 11 for a period in excess of thirty days, to a residential mental health
 12 treatment unit. Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to prevent the
 13 disciplinary process from proceeding in accordance with department rules
 14 and regulations for disciplinary hearings.
 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 16 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10073-01-5

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