STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4336 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, BLAKE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the report the correction medical review board is required to issue regarding the death of any inmate The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 47 of the 2 correction law, as added by chapter 865 of the laws of 1975, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (d) Upon review of the cause of death and circumstances surrounding 5 the death of any inmate, the board shall submit its report thereon to 6 the commission and to the recipients of the annual report pursuant to 7 subdivision seventeen of section forty-five of this article and, where 8 appropriate, make recommendations to prevent the recurrence of such 9 deaths to the commission and the administrator of the appropriate 10 correctional facility. Such report shall not be redacted except as 11 otherwise required to protect confidential medical records and behav- 12 ioral health records in accordance with state and federal laws, rules, 13 and regulations. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08549-01-9