S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 6, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to allowing direct
descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty
years or longer to access such patient's clinical records
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 33.16 of the
mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2017, is
amended to read as follows:
6. "Qualified person" means any properly identified patient or client,
guardian of a person with a developmental disability appointed pursuant
to article seventeen-A of the surrogate's court procedure act, or
committee for an incompetent appointed pursuant to this chapter or a
parent of an infant, or a guardian of an infant appointed pursuant to
article seventeen of the surrogate's court procedure act or other legal-
ly appointed guardian of an infant who may be entitled to request access
to a clinical record pursuant to paragraph three of subdivision (b) of
this section, or a parent, spouse, adult child, or adult sibling of an
adult patient or client who may be entitled to request access to a clin-
ical record pursuant to paragraph four of subdivision (b) of this
section, OR A DIRECT DESCENDANT OF A FORMER PATIENT OR CLIENT WHO HAS
BEEN DECEASED FOR A PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS OR LONGER.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15122-01-4
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