Assembly Bill A10502

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain health care providers to file an application for an extreme risk protection order against a person examined by such health care provider in certain circumstances

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S9113 - 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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2021-A10502 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9113
Law Section:
Civil Practice Law and Rules
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6340 & 6341, add §6348, CPLR; add §214-h, amd §840, Exec L; amd §400.00, Pen L; amd §9.46, Ment Hyg L

2021-A10502 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the filing of an application for an extreme risk protection order by a licensed physician, licensed psychiatrist, licensed psychologist, registered nurse, licensed clinical social worker, certified clinical nurse specialist, certified nurse practitioner, licensed clinical marriage and family therapist, registerered professional nurse, licensed master social worker or licensed mental health counselor ho has examined the person against whom the order is sought.

2021-A10502 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10502
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 30, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cahill) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil practice law and rules, the executive law, the
   penal law and the mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   certain  health  care  providers to file an application for an extreme
   risk protection order against a person who was examined by such health
   care provider in certain circumstances
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6340 of the civil practice law and
 rules, as added by chapter 19 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2.  "Petitioner"  means:  (a)  a police officer, as defined in section
 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, or district attorney with  jurisdic-
 tion  in  the  county or city where the person against whom the order is
 sought resides; (b) a family or household member, as defined in subdivi-
 sion two of section four hundred fifty-nine-a  of  the  social  services
 law,  of  the person against whom the order is sought; [or] (c) a school
 administrator as defined in section eleven hundred  twenty-five  of  the
 education  law,  or  a school administrator's designee, of any school in
 which the person against whom the order is sought is currently  enrolled
 or  has been enrolled in the six months immediately preceding the filing
 of the petition; OR (D) A  LICENSED  PHYSICIAN,  LICENSED  PSYCHIATRIST,
 LICENSED  PSYCHOLOGIST, REGISTERED NURSE, LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK-
 ER, CERTIFIED CLINICAL NURSE SPECIALIST, CERTIFIED  NURSE  PRACTITIONER,
 LICENSED CLINICAL MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST, REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL
 NURSE, LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER OR LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR
 WHO  HAS  TREATED THE PERSON AGAINST WHOM THE ORDER IS SOUGHT IN THE SIX
 MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE FILING OF THE PETITION.   For  purposes
 of  this article, a school administrator's designee shall be employed at
 the same school as the school administrator and  shall  be  any  of  the
 following  who  has  been  designated in writing to file a petition with
 respect to the person against whom the order is sought: a school  teach-
 er,  school guidance counselor, school psychologist, school social work-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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