Senate Bill S7282

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to reporting deaths and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A9034 - Signed by Governor

  • 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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2017-S7282 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9034
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §461-m, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S. 787-A and A. 2702)

2017-S7282 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the requirements for reporting deaths and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities.

2017-S7282 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7282 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7282
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reporting deaths
   and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 461-m of the social services law, as amended  by  a
 chapter  of  the laws of 2017, amending the social services law relating
 to death and felony crime reports in certain adult care  facilities,  as
 proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 787-A and A. 2702, is amended
 to read as follows:
   § 461-m. Death and felony crime reporting. The operator  of  an  adult
 home,  enriched  housing  program  or residence for adults shall have an
 affirmative duty to report any death, or attempted suicide of a resident
 to the department of health within twenty-four hours of its  occurrence,
 and  shall also have an affirmative duty to report to an appropriate law
 enforcement authority if the operator discovers  an  incident  that  the
 operator believes or reasonably should believe would constitute a felony
 crime against a resident of such facility as soon as possible, or in any
 event  within  twenty-four  hours. In addition, [any] THE operator [of a
 facility defined in section four hundred eighty-eight  of  this  chapter
 that is subject to this section,] shall[, in addition,] send any reports
 involving a resident who had at any time received services from a mental
 hygiene  service  provider  to  the justice center for the protection of
 people with special needs [within twenty-four hours of the occurrence of
 the death or attempted suicide or of the discovery of an  incident  that
 the  operator believed or reasonably should have believed to be a felony
 crime].
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services
 law relating to death and felony crime reports  in  certain  adult  care
 facilities,  as  proposed  in  legislative bills numbers S. 787-A and A.
 2702, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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