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Assembly Bill A6643

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires emergency services facilities to provide immediate suicide risk assessments to acute psychiatric patients

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2021-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Add §33.29, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
A10864

2021-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires emergency services facilities to provide immediate suicide risk assessments to acute psychiatric patients.

2021-A6643 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6643
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 23, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  requiring  emer-
   gency  services  facilities  to provide immediate suicide risk assess-
   ments to acute psychiatric patients

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 33.29 to read as follows:
 § 33.29 EMERGENCY SERVICES FACILITIES IMMEDIATE  ASSESSMENT  OF  SUICIDE
           RISK.
   (A)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION, "EMERGENCY SERVICES FACILITIES"
 SHALL MEAN BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, EQUIPMENT OR SYSTEMS USED  TO  PROVIDE
 EMERGENCY  MEDICAL SERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS WHO REQUIRE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL
 ATTENTION.
   (B) EMERGENCY SERVICES FACILITIES SHALL PROVIDE FOR, AS PART OF  THEIR
 PATIENT  INTAKE  PROCESS, THE IMMEDIATE ASSESSMENT OF SUICIDE RISK IN AN
 ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT WHO ARRIVES TO SUCH FACILITY  SEEKING  MEDICAL
 ATTENTION.
   (C)  EMERGENCY  SERVICES  FACILITIES  SHALL MAINTAIN A LICENSED MENTAL
 HEALTH PROFESSIONAL OR EMERGENCY SERVICES PERSONNEL WHO  HAVE  COMPLETED
 COURSEWORK  OR  APPLIED  EXPERIENCE  UNDER  SUPERVISION  IN SUICIDE RISK
 ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION ON STAFF AND AVAILABLE DURING ALL  HOURS  OF
 OPERATION  IN  ORDER  TO PROVIDE FOR THE IMMEDIATE ASSESSMENT OF SUICIDE
 RISK AS DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (B) OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06277-01-1

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