S8061 • 2025

Provides for mental health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities

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Sponsor: James Skoufis
Last action: 2026-06-02
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Provides for mental health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities

Provides for mental health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, to make mental health counseling available to all correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.

What This Bill Does

Provides for mental health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, to make mental health counseling available to all correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.

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Bill History

2026-06-02 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-06-02 Senate
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-06-02 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORRECTION
2026-03-26 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-03-25 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-03-24 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.625
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION
2025-05-15 Senate
REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Official Summary Text

Provides for mental health counseling for correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities
Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, to make mental health counseling available to all correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8061

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                      May 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 providing mental
          health counseling  for  correction  officers  and  civilian  staff  in
          correctional facilities

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The correction law is amended by adding a new section  22-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  22-B.  CORRECTION  OFFICER  AND  CIVILIAN STAFF MENTAL HEALTH COUN-
     4  SELING. THE COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
     5  MENTAL  HEALTH,  SHALL  MAKE  MENTAL  HEALTH COUNSELING AVAILABLE TO ALL
     6  CORRECTION OFFICERS AND CIVILIAN STAFF IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11130-02-5