S7983 (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; establishes an independent medical oversight body to monitor and evaluate the quality of medical care provided to incarcerated individuals within correctional facilities and to ensure compliance with constitutional and statutory requirements for adequate medical care; provides penalties for certain violations; requires the department of corrections and community supervision to collect data on medical incidents, response times, and correctional facility compliance with certain requirements, and to publish an annual report detailing such data.
- Title
- Enacts the "McDow Watson medical transparency in correctional facilities act"
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Senate Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-01-07
- In committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Introduced
- 2025-05-15
- Law section
- Correction Law
Sponsors
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
Heard in committee
- Crime Victims, Crime And Correction NY State Senate committee