STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6335 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to incarcerated individ- uals with a serious mental illness The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 6 of 2 section 137 of the correction law, as amended by chapter 322 of the laws 3 of 2021, is amended to read as follows: 4 (i) [he or she has a current diagnosis of, or is diagnosed at the 5 initial or any subsequent assessment conducted during the incarcerated 6 individual's segregated confinement with, one or more of the following 7 types of Axis I diagnoses, as described in the most recent edition of 8 the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, and such 9 diagnoses shall be made based upon all relevant clinical factors, 10 including but not limited to symptoms related to such diagnoses: 11 (A) schizophrenia (all sub-types), 12 (B) delusional disorder, 13 (C) schizophreniform disorder, 14 (D) schizoaffective disorder, 15 (E) brief psychotic disorder, 16 (F) substance-induced psychotic disorder (excluding intoxication and 17 withdrawal), 18 (G) psychotic disorder not otherwise specified, 19 (H) major depressive disorders, or 20 (I) bipolar disorder I and II] such incarcerated individual is a 21 person with a serious mental illness, as defined in subdivision fifty- 22 two of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law; 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 24 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06492-01-5