Assembly Bill A10716

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to providing information about extreme risk protection orders upon release or discharge of 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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2019-A10716 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §29.15, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A1005

2019-A10716 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to including certain information about seeking extreme risk protection orders in written service plans for discharge and conditional release of patients to the community.

2019-A10716 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10716
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 1, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to including certain
   information about seeking extreme risk protection  orders  in  written
   service plans for discharge and conditional release of patients to the
   community

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (g)  of  section  29.15  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as  added  by chapter 306 of the laws of 1995, is
 amended and a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
   [(5) an] 5. AN evaluation of the patient's need and  potential  eligi-
 bility  public  benefits  following  discharge  or  conditional release,
 including public assistance, medicaid, and supplemental security income.
   6. MATERIAL PROVIDING INFORMATION  RELATED  TO  SEEKING  EXTREME  RISK
 PROTECTION  ORDERS, PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIXTY-THREE-A OF THE CIVIL PRAC-
 TICE LAW AND RULES.   SUCH MATERIAL SHALL INFORM  THE  PATIENT,  AND  AN
 AUTHORIZED  REPRESENTATIVE OF SUCH PATIENT WHO HAS ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED
 IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR SUCH PATIENT'S DISCHARGE OR CONDITIONAL
 RELEASE PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (F) OF THIS SECTION, AND WHO MAY ACT  AS
 A  PETITIONER,  AS  SUCH  TERM IS DEFINED BY SECTION SIXTY-THREE HUNDRED
 FORTY OF THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES, TO FILE AN APPLICATION FOR AN
 EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  SECTION  SIXTY-THREE
 HUNDRED  FORTY-ONE  OF  THE  CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES. SUCH MATERIAL
 SHALL ALSO INCLUDE THE FACTORS THAT A COURT MAY CONSIDER IN  DETERMINING
 WHETHER  GROUNDS  FOR ISSUING AN EXTREME RISK PROTECTION ORDER EXIST, AS
 PROVIDED BY SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION SIXTY-THREE HUNDRED FORTY-TWO  OF
 THE CIVIL PRACTICE LAW AND RULES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16440-01-0

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