Assembly Bill A9034

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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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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2017-A9034 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7282
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §461-m, Soc Serv L (as proposed in S. 787-A and A. 2702)

2017-A9034 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A9034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9034
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 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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