Assembly Bill A11650

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit mentally ill patients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A11650 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1.03, 9.05, 9.27, 9.40, 9.55, 9.57 & 9.60, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A1603
2013-2014: A4886
2015-2016: A8440
2017-2018: A3895
2019-2020: A2820

2009-A11650 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on a voluntary or involuntary basis.

2009-A11650 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  11650

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              July 6, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES  --  (at request of M. of A. Ortiz,
  Colton) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to authorizing nurse
  practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on
  a voluntary or involuntary basis

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

  Section 1. Section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 9-a to read as follows:
  9-A.  "NURSE PRACTITIONER" MEANS A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER ACTING
WITHIN HIS OR HER LAWFUL SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
  S 2. The section heading, the opening paragraph of subdivision (a) and
subdivision (b) of section 9.05 of the mental hygiene law, such  section
as  renumbered  by chapter 978 and the laws of 1977, are amended to read
as follows:
  Examining physicians and NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND medical certificates.
  A person is disqualified from acting  as  an  examining  physician  OR
NURSE PRACTITIONER in the following cases:
  (b)  A  certificate,  as  required by this article, must show that the
person is mentally ill and shall be  based  on  an  examination  of  the
person alleged to be mentally ill made within ten days prior to the date
of  admission.  The  date  of  the certificate shall be the date of such
examination. All certificates shall contain the facts and  circumstances
upon which the judgment of the physicians OR NURSE PRACTITIONER is based
and shall show that the condition of the person examined is such that he
OR SHE needs involuntary care and treatment in a hospital and such other
information as the commissioner may by regulation require.
  S  3.  Subdivision (a) of section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law, such
section as renumbered by chapter 978 of the laws of 1977, is amended  to
read as follows:
  (a)  The  director  of  a hospital may receive and retain therein as a
patient any person alleged to be mentally ill and in need of involuntary
care and treatment upon the certificates of two examining physicians  OR
NURSE  PRACTITIONERS, accompanied by an application for the admission of
such person. The examination may be conducted jointly but each examining
physician OR NURSE PRACTITIONER shall execute a separate certificate.

              

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