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NY A03102
Bill
Status
1/23/2025
Primary Sponsor
Erik Dilan
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AI Summary
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Replaces the detailed list of specific mental health diagnoses (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorders, etc.) used to identify incarcerated individuals with serious mental illness in segregated confinement provisions
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Adopts the standardized definition of "person with a serious mental illness" from subdivision 52 of section 1.03 of the Mental Hygiene Law for correction law purposes
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Amends section 137 of the correction law, which governs the treatment of incarcerated individuals in segregated confinement
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Takes effect 90 days after becoming law
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Introduced by Assembly Member Dilan and referred to the Committee on Correction
Legislative Description
Conforms the definition of an incarcerated individual with a serious mental illness to the definition of "person with a serious mental illness" in the mental hygiene law.
Last Action
referred to ways and means
1/7/2026