Bill Text: NY S06288 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [S06288 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6288

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 3, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to annual reporting
          on inmate substance abuse

          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 services shall  moni-
     5  tor  programs  providing  care  and treatment to inmates in correctional
     6  facilities operated by  the  department  of  corrections  and  community
     7  supervision  who have a history of alcohol or substance abuse or depend-
     8  ence. The office shall also develop  guidelines  for  the  operation  of
     9  alcohol  and  substance  abuse  treatment  programs in such correctional
    10  facilities in order to ensure that such programs sufficiently  meet  the
    11  needs of inmates with a history of alcohol or substance abuse or depend-
    12  ence and promote the successful transition to treatment in the community
    13  upon  release. No later than the first day of December of each year, the
    14  office shall submit a report regarding: (1) the adequacy and  effective-
    15  ness  of  alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs operated by the
    16  department of corrections  and  community  supervision;  (2)  the  total
    17  number  of  inmates  in  correctional facilities that have been screened
    18  for, and determined to have, a substance abuse disorder; (3) information
    19  regarding which substances inmates  are  most  dependent  upon  and  the
    20  available  treatment for such inmates within each correctional facility;
    21  and (4) the number of inmates receiving treatment in correctional facil-
    22  ities for each substance. Such report shall be sent to the governor, the
    23  temporary president of the senate, the  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the
    24  chairman of the senate committee on crime victims, crime and correction,
    25  and the chairman of the assembly committee on correction.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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