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- Signed chap.20
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.9
- Substituted for A9162
- Referred to correction
- Returned to assembly
- Repassed senate
- Amended on third reading 6380a
- Vote reconsidered - restored to third reading
- Returned to senate
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- Recalled from assembly
- Referred to correction
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.11
- Referred to rules
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Relates to training for staff in residential mental health treatment units programs inside correctional facilities
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Aileen Gunther
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Title of bill
An act to amend the correction law, in relation to training for staff in residential mental health treatment units programs inside correctional facilities
Purpose
The intent of this act is to ensure training for new correction officers, and other new department staff who regularly work in programs providing mental health treatment for inmates, as well as eight hours of training for these staff who work in such units. It also requires all staff with direct inmate contact to receive training each year regarding identification of care for inmates with mental illnesses.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends a chapter of the laws of 2015 by providing that new correction officers and other new department staff who regularly work in programs providing mental health treatment to receive at least eight hours of training about the types and symptoms of mental illnesses. Furthermore this section provides that such staff shall receive eight hours of training annually.
This section also provides that all security, program services, mental health and medical staff with direct inmate contact shall receive training each year regarding identification of and care for inmates with mental illnesses.
Justification
Chapter 518 of 2015 provided annual mental health training for correction officers and other staff, this is an agreed upon chapter amendment.
Legislative history
Negotiated Chapter Amendment to Chapter 518 of the laws of 2015.
Fiscal implications
To be determined.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the same date and in the manner as a chapter of the laws of 2015 amending the correction law relating to training for staff in residential mental health treatment units programs inside correctional facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.633 and A.836, takes effect.
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