A7576 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Relates to required notification of an incarcerated individual's emergency contacts when such incarcerated individual experiences a serious medical event; provides that incarcerated individuals and their representatives shall have the right to access such incarcerated individual's medical records; provides requirements for access to such medical records; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to collect data on medical incidents and response times, and to publish an annual report detailing such data.
- Title
- Enacts the "McDow Watson medical transparency in correctional facilities act"
- Type
- New York State Assembly bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-04-21
- In committee
- Ways And Means
- Introduced
- 2025-04-01
- Active version
- A7576A
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- George Alvarez Assembly Member, District 78
Co-sponsors
- Al Taylor Assembly Member, District 71
- Chantel Jackson Assembly Member, District 79
Heard in committee
- Correction NY State Assembly committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee