Senate Bill S7804

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Adds siblings to the definition of a qualified person

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2015-S7804 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §33.16, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S2933

2015-S7804 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds siblings to the definition of a qualified person of an adult patient or client who may be entitled to request access to a clinical record.

2015-S7804 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7804 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7804

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 12, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
  mental Disabilities

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  adding  siblings
  to the definition of a "qualified person"

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

  Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision (a)  of  section  33.16  of  the
mental  hygiene  law,  as  amended by chapter 37 of the laws of 2011, is
amended to read as follows:
  6. "Qualified person" means any properly identified patient or client,
guardian of a person with a developmental disability appointed  pursuant
to  article  seventeen-A  of  the  surrogate's  court  procedure act, or
committee for an incompetent appointed pursuant to  this  chapter  or  a
parent  of  an  infant, or a guardian of an infant appointed pursuant to
article seventeen of the surrogate's court procedure act or other legal-
ly appointed guardian of an infant who may be entitled to request access
to a clinical record pursuant to paragraph three of subdivision  (b)  of
this  section,  or  a parent, spouse [or], adult child, OR SIBLING of an
adult patient or client who may be entitled to request access to a clin-
ical record pursuant to  paragraph  four  of  subdivision  (b)  of  this
section.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15274-01-6

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