STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7985--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 24, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BLAKE -- (at request of the State Commission of
          Correction) -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Correction
          --  reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to health care  services
          for county jail inmates
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 501 of the correction law is  amended  to  read  as
     2  follows:
     3    §  501.  Jail  physician.  1. The board of supervisors of each county,
     4  except New York, must appoint some reputable physician, duly  authorized
     5  to  practice  medicine,  as  the physician to the jail of the county. If
     6  there is more than one jail they must appoint a physician to  each.  The
     7  physician  to a jail holds his office at the pleasure of the board which
     8  appointed him, except in the county of Kings. In that county,  the  term
     9  of his office is three years.
    10    2.  Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, a county board of
    11  supervisors may instead procure the services of a professional  partner-
    12  ship, a professional service corporation, a professional service limited
    13  liability  company  or  a  registered  limited  liability  company, duly
    14  authorized to practice medicine in the state, for the purpose of provid-
    15  ing health services to the inmates of the jail, provided that one physi-
    16  cian from  any  such  professional  partnership,  professional  services
    17  corporation,  professional  service  limited liability company or regis-
    18  tered limited liability company shall be designated by the board to  act
    19  as the chief medical officer of the jail.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10049-04-7