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Assembly Bill A648

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Directs the mental hygiene legal service and commissioner of developmental disabilities to maintain adequate staffing for review orders to provide or deny life-sustaining treatment

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2017-A648 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Surrogate's Court Procedure Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §1750-b, SCPA
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A3593

2017-A648 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the mental hygiene legal service and commissioner of developmental disabilities to maintain adequate 24 hour a day staffing for review orders to provide or deny life-sustaining treatment to persons with developmental disabilities.

2017-A648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    648
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER,  ENGLEBRIGHT, MOSLEY, COLTON, COOK,
   CUSICK, BLAKE, ARROYO, HOOPER, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   CRESPO, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Judiciary
 
 AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court  procedure  act,  in  relation  to
   requiring certain agencies with authority to object to the implementa-
   tion  of  medical  orders  for  life-sustaining  treatment to develop-
   mentally disabled persons to be on-call
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 1750-b of the surrogate's court
 procedure act is amended by adding  a  new  paragraph  (f)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (F)  THE MENTAL HYGIENE LEGAL SERVICE AND THE COMMISSIONER OF DEVELOP-
 MENTAL DISABILITIES SHALL ASSURE THAT APPROPRIATE STAFF IS  ON-CALL  AND
 AVAILABLE  ON  A  TWENTY-FOUR HOUR A DAY BASIS EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR FOR
 THE PURPOSE OF RECEIVING AND ACTING ON NOTICES GIVEN PURSUANT  TO  PARA-
 GRAPH (E) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02913-01-7

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