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Assembly Bill A1459

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities

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2015-A1459 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1907
Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง47.01, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10824
2011-2012: A126, S3423
2013-2014: A190, S801
2017-2018: A1362, S2441
2019-2020: A4482, S3766

2015-A1459 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

2015-A1459 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1459

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK,  TITONE,  ABINANTI  -- read once and
  referred to the Committee on Mental Health

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  providing  a
  mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of resi-
  dential healthcare facilities

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 47.01 of the mental hygiene law,
as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of  2007,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (a) There shall be a mental hygiene legal service of the state in each
judicial  department.  The  service  shall  provide  legal assistance to
patients or residents of a facility as defined in section 1.03  of  this
chapter,    PATIENTS  OR  RESIDENTS OF RESIDENTIAL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
LICENSED AND OPERATING PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT  OF  THE  PUBLIC
HEALTH LAW WHO HAVE BEEN ADMITTED DIRECTLY FROM A FACILITY AS DEFINED IN
SECTION  1.03  OF  THIS CHAPTER AND WHO HAVE A SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AS
DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF  THIS  CHAPTER  AND  ARE  RECEIVING  SERVICES
RELATED  TO  SUCH  ILLNESS,  or  any  other  place  or facility which is
required to have an operating certificate pursuant to article sixteen or
thirty-one of this chapter, and to persons alleged to be in need of care
and treatment in such facilities or places, and to persons  entitled  to
such  legal  assistance  as provided by article ten of this chapter. The
head of such service in each judicial department and such assistants and
such staff as may be necessary shall be appointed and may be removed  by
the  presiding justice of the appellate division of the judicial depart-
ment.  Appointments and transfers to the service shall comply  with  the
provisions of the civil service law. Standards for qualifications of the
personnel  in  the service shall be established by the presiding justice
of the appellate division of  the  judicial  department.  The  presiding
justice  of  the  appellate  division  of  the judicial department shall
promulgate such rules or regulations as may be necessary  to  effectuate
the purposes of this article.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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