STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3114

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. EPSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain legislators to visit sex offender civil confinement facilities

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

     1    Section 1. Section 10.10 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (j) to read as follows:
     3    (j) The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all
     4  secure treatment facilities established under this article: governor and
     5  lieutenant-governor,  commissioner  of  general  services,  secretary of
     6  state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature  and
     7  their  accompanying staff, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court
     8  and county judges, district attorneys and every clergyman  or  minister,
     9  as  such  terms are defined in section two of the religious corporations
    10  law, having charge of a congregation in  the  county  wherein  any  such
    11  facility is situated.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03133-01-1