A 2477: Prohibits admission of sex offenders to state operated psychiatric centers which share facilities with a children's psychiatric center.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2477 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to treatment of sex offenders in certain facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 9.65 to read as follows: 3 § 9.65 Treatment of sex offenders in certain facilities. 4 Any facility operated by the state, which provides non-emergency, 5 clinical outpatient or inpatient psychiatric treatment and which oper- 6 ates in the same building as a children's psychiatric center operated by 7 the state shall determine, prior to the treatment or admission of any 8 person, whether such person is a sex offender, as defined by subdivision 9 one of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law. No 10 facility which operates in the same building as a children's psychiatric 11 center shall admit or treat a registered sex offender at such location. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05936-01-5