Bill Text: NY A04943 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to annual reporting on substance use disorder in incarcerated individuals; requires the office of addiction services and supports to monitor programs providing treatment to incarcerated individuals in correctional facilities and provide an annual report.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - REFERRED TO RULES [A04943 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04943-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4943--B
                                                                Cal. No. 190

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DenDEKKER -- read once and referred
          to  the  Committee  on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- ordered to a third
          reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  on  the
          order  of  third  reading  --  again amended on third reading, ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to annual  reporting
          on substance use disorder in incarcerated individuals

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (h) of section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as amended by section 118-f of subpart B of part C of chapter 62 of  the
     3  laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (h)  The office of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services
     5  and supports shall monitor programs  providing  care  and  treatment  to
     6  [inmates]  incarcerated  individuals in correctional facilities operated
     7  by the department of corrections and community supervision  who  have  a
     8  history  of alcohol or substance [abuse] use disorder or dependence. The
     9  office shall also develop guidelines for the operation  of  alcohol  and
    10  substance  [abuse]  use disorder treatment programs in such correctional
    11  facilities, based on best practices, and tailored to the nature  of  the
    12  individual's  substance  use,  history of past treatment, and history of
    13  mental illness or trauma, which may include harm  reduction  strategies,
    14  in  order  to  ensure  that such programs sufficiently meet the needs of
    15  [inmates]  incarcerated  individuals  with  a  history  of  alcohol   or
    16  substance  [abuse] use disorder or dependence and promote the successful
    17  transition to treatment in the community upon release. No later than the
    18  first day of December of each year, the office  shall  submit  a  report
    19  regarding:  (1)  the adequacy and effectiveness of alcohol and substance
    20  [abuse] use disorder treatment programs operated by  the  department  of
    21  corrections and community supervision; (2) the total number of incarcer-
    22  ated individuals in correctional facilities that have been screened for,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06062-07-0
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     1  and  determined  to  have,  a  substance  use  disorder; (3) information
     2  regarding which substances incarcerated individuals are  most  dependent
     3  upon  and  the  available  treatment  for  such  individuals within each
     4  correctional  facility;  (4) the total number of individuals who partic-
     5  ipate in each of the treatment programs operated by  the  department  of
     6  corrections and community supervision; and (5) the total number of indi-
     7  viduals  who  participated in a substance use disorder treatment program
     8  but failed to complete such program, as well as whether such failure  to
     9  complete  the  program  was a result of disciplinary action taken by the
    10  facility against the individual for instances unrelated to their partic-
    11  ipation in the treatment program.  The  department  of  corrections  and
    12  community  supervision  shall provide the office with information needed
    13  to complete this report.  Such report shall be sent to the governor, the
    14  temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
    15  chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction,
    16  and the chairman of the assembly committee on correction.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.