New York S 5904: Requires a mental health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement

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S05904 Summary:

BILL NOS05904 

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SPONSORLANZA

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §137, Cor L

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Requires a mental health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in solitary confinement when such incarcerated individual is in such confinement for a period in excess of twenty-four hours.

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BILL NOS05904 

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5904

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 a mental
 health medical professional to examine incarcerated individuals in
 solitary confinement

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 137 of the
 2 correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws of 2021, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 (c) Where such confinement is for a period in excess of twenty-four
 5 hours, the superintendent shall arrange for a medical professional with
 6 an expertise in mental health and for the facility health services
 7 director, or a registered nurse or physician's associate approved by the
 8 facility health services director to visit such incarcerated individual
 9 at the expiration of twenty-four hours and at least once in every twen-
 10 ty-four hour period thereafter, during the period of such confinement,
 11 to examine into the state of health of the incarcerated individual, and
 12 the superintendent shall give full consideration to any recommendation
 13 that may be made by the facility health services director for measures
 14 with respect to dietary needs or conditions of confinement of such
 15 incarcerated individual required to maintain the health of such incar-
 16 cerated individual; and
 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD10347-01-5

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