---
type: "Bill"
title: "Imposes certain requirements on institutions housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect prior to the discharge of such defendant"
description: "Requires each appropriate institution housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect to assign a critical time intervention care management team to the defendant and make a single point of access referral for the defendant prior to such defendant's discharge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 1744"
citation: "New York S 1744 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brad Hoylman-Sigal"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-01-13"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a8d01fa-2cbe-4327-948b-6450a600e557"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S1744"
source_hash: "8eff7d74d5cfda4e6bdd38e2ba95cb594507fe37ab947090e31f554333eb9991"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 1744 (2025-2026) — Imposes certain requirements on institutions housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect prior to the discharge of such defendant

Requires each appropriate institution housing a defendant due to mental disease or defect to assign a critical time intervention care management team to the defendant and make a single point of access referral for the defendant prior to such defendant's discharge.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S1744** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S1744&term=2025&Text=Y)
2. **S1744A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/S1744A)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **137–0** (pass) · lower
- Rules Vote — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote - Version: A — **59–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Brad Hoylman-Sigal — primary (person)
- Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Krueger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-01-13** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1524
- **2025-06-06** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 1744A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-11** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-11** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-11** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-13** SUBSTITUTED FOR A2440A
- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.644
- **2025-06-13** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-13** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.675 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.56

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a8d01fa-2cbe-4327-948b-6450a600e557`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).