Senate Bill S7108

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to home and community-based care and support for individuals with eating disorders

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities 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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2019-S7108 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §31.25, Ment Hyg L; amd §2799-g, Pub Health L

2019-S7108 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that in planning discharge and care transition from residential settings to the individual's own home or apartment, home of a family member or other adult, or to other allowed community settings for home care under article thirty-six of the public health law, the residential provider and comprehensive care center for eating disorders shall consider coordination with home care agency professionals under article thirty-six of such law to provide pre-discharge, transitional and post-discharge home and community-based care if conducive to the individual's continued recovery, stability and progressive outcome, including prevention of further, potentially avoidable hospital, emergency room or residential provider admissions; makes related provisions.

2019-S7108 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7108 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7108
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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 and the  public  health  law,  in
   relation  to home and community-based care and support for individuals
   with eating disorders

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 31.25 of the mental hygiene law, as added by chap-
 ter 24 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
 § 31.25  Residential services for treatment of eating disorders.
   The commissioner shall establish,  pursuant  to  regulation,  licensed
 residential  providers  of treatment and/or supportive services to chil-
 dren, adolescents, and adults with eating disorders,  as  that  term  is
 defined  in  section  twenty-seven  hundred  ninety-nine-e of the public
 health law. Such regulations shall be  developed  in  consultation  with
 representatives  from  each of the comprehensive care centers for eating
 disorders established pursuant to article twenty-seven-J of  the  public
 health  law  and  licensed  treatment professionals, such as physicians,
 psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists, with demonstrated expertise
 in treating patients with eating disorders.
   IN PLANNING  DISCHARGE  AND  CARE  TRANSITION  FROM  SUCH  RESIDENTIAL
 SETTINGS  TO  THE  INDIVIDUAL'S  OWN HOME OR APARTMENT, HOME OF A FAMILY
 MEMBER OR OTHER ADULT, OR TO OTHER ALLOWED COMMUNITY SETTINGS  FOR  HOME
 CARE  UNDER ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, THE RESIDENTIAL
 PROVIDER AND  COMPREHENSIVE  CARE  CENTER  FOR  EATING  DISORDERS  SHALL
 CONSIDER  COORDINATION WITH HOME CARE AGENCY PROFESSIONALS UNDER ARTICLE
 THIRTY-SIX OF SUCH LAW TO PROVIDE PRE-DISCHARGE, TRANSITIONAL AND  POST-
 DISCHARGE HOME AND COMMUNITY-BASED CARE IF CONDUCIVE TO THE INDIVIDUAL'S
 CONTINUED   RECOVERY,   STABILITY  AND  PROGRESSIVE  OUTCOME,  INCLUDING
 PREVENTION OF FURTHER, POTENTIALLY AVOIDABLE HOSPITAL, EMERGENCY ROOM OR
 RESIDENTIAL PROVIDER ADMISSIONS. SUCH HOME CARE AGENCY PROFESSIONALS AND
 SERVICES MAY INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, NURSING,  THERAPY,  SOCIAL
 
              

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