Bill Text: NY A09678 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of corrections and community supervision within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, to notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated individual or other such individual.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-22 - signed chap.490 [A09678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09678-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9678

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to  requiring  notifica-
          tion  of  an  incarcerated  individual's  emergency contacts when such
          incarcerated individual attempts suicide or is hospitalized

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

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section 17 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  17.  Notice to emergency contacts.  Within twenty-four hours of the
     4  attempted suicide or hospitalization of an  incarcerated  individual  or
     5  any  other  individual  occurring  in the custody of the department, the
     6  department shall notify the  emergency  contacts  of  such  incarcerated
     7  individual or other such individual.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14979-01-4