NY State Senate Bill 2019-S6752

Senate Bill S6752

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to provide transitional care for certain persons

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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Jan 08, 2020	referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
Sep 25, 2019	referred to rules

2019-S6752 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:: Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§7.37-a & 13.37-a, Ment Hyg L

2019-S6752 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to provide transitional care for certain persons.

2019-S6752 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S6752

SPONSOR: LITTLE
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to
authorizing the office of mental health and the office for people with
developmental disabilities to provide transitional care for certain
persons

 
PURPOSE:

Authorizes the office of mental health and the office for people with
developmental disabilities to provide transitional care for certain
persons.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Paragraph 6 and paragraph 5 (laws of 1998) of subdivision (a) of section
7.37-a of the mental hygiene law is amended

Paragraph 6 and paragraph 5 (laws of 2015) of subdivision (a) of section
13.37-a of the mental hygiene law is amended.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Recently, a Plattsburgh teenager with profound developmental disabili-
ties languished in a hospital emergency room for five weeks because a
school district and state agency could not find the teenager a residen-
tial school, according to a state appeals court. The Appellate Division
of the State Supreme Court ruled it could not intervene in the case of
the teenager who spent five weeks at the Champlain Valley Physicians
Hospital after her mother said she could not care for her and the local
school district said it could no longer handle her behavior. The ruling
found that the state Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
(OPWDD) had no way to provide the teen with temporary housing while the
search for a residential school dragged on for more than a month. OPWDD
temporary residential placements for children with complex disabilities
are scarce, and OPWDD needs to improve this process immediately.

This legislation states the Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the OPWDD
are to provide transitional care until residential educational placement
is found for such person prior to becoming twenty-one years of age who
are disabled, abandoned and in need of residential educational.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2019-S6752 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6752
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  authorizing  the
   office  of  mental health and the office for people with developmental
   disabilities to provide transitional care for certain persons

   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 7.37-a of the
 mental hygiene law is renumbered paragraph 7.
   § 2. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (a) of section 7.37-a  of  the  mental
 hygiene law, as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1998, is amended and
 a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
   5.  whose  residential  needs  can be met by the facility in which the
 persons resided prior to becoming age twenty-one or becoming  ineligible
 for free educational services; [and]
   6.  WHO WERE DISABLED AND IN NEED OF RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT
 PRIOR TO BECOMING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON WAS
 ABANDONED AND THAT SUCH TRANSITIONAL CARE SHALL ONLY BE  PROVIDED  UNTIL
 RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT IS FOUND FOR SUCH PERSON; AND
   §  3.  Paragraph 6 of subdivision (a) of section 13.37-a of the mental
 hygiene law is renumbered paragraph 7.
   § 4. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (a) of section 13.37-a of  the  mental
 hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 106 of the laws of 2015, is amended
 and a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
   5. whose residential needs can be met by the  facility  in  which  the
 persons  resided prior to becoming age twenty-one or becoming ineligible
 for free educational services; [and]
   6. WHO WERE DISABLED AND IN NEED OF RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL  PLACEMENT
 PRIOR TO BECOMING TWENTY-ONE YEARS OF AGE, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON WAS
 ABANDONED  AND  THAT SUCH TRANSITIONAL CARE SHALL ONLY BE PROVIDED UNTIL
 RESIDENTIAL EDUCATIONAL PLACEMENT IS FOUND FOR SUCH PERSONS; AND
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13763-02-9

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