Bill Text: NY A00916 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 916 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes the department of corrections and community supervision shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education and counseling resources.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-23 - signed chap.385 [A00916 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00916-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           916
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PEOPLES-STOKES, PERRY, GLICK, BRONSON, WEPRIN,
          GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to human immunodeficien-
          cy virus (HIV) prevention
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  76 of the correction law, as
     2  amended by chapter 5 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1. (a) Prior to the release of an inmate from a correctional facility,
     4  the department shall provide such inmate  with  information  on  transi-
     5  tional  services  available  in  the county or city where such inmate is
     6  scheduled to  be  released.  Such  information  shall  include  programs
     7  designed  to  promote  the successful and productive reentry and reinte-
     8  gration of an inmate into society including medical  and  mental  health
     9  services,  HIV/AIDS  services,  educational,  vocational  and employment
    10  services, alcohol or substance abuse treatment and housing services. The
    11  department shall maintain a current list of transitional services  which
    12  shall  be  updated regularly in order to effectuate the purposes of this
    13  section. Where appropriate, the department shall provide  assistance  to
    14  an  inmate  in  contacting  a  program or service provider prior to such
    15  inmate's release to the community.
    16    (b) Upon discharge of an inmate  from  a  correctional  facility,  the
    17  department  shall provide such inmate with educational information about
    18  the  prevention  of  human  immunodeficiency  virus   (HIV)   infection,
    19  instructions  about how to obtain free HIV testing upon release, includ-
    20  ing contact information for HIV counseling and testing service providers
    21  located in the county or city in which such  inmate  intends  to  reside
    22  upon release, and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education
    23  and  counseling  resources  located  in the county or city in which such
    24  inmate intends to reside upon release.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    26  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04695-01-9