Assembly Bill A4451

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program and eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A4451 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3483
Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§7.17, 9.47, 9.48, 9.60 & 29.15, Ment Hyg L; amd §404, Cor L; amd §18, Chap 408 of 1999
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S4881
2013-2014: S2225
2015-2016: A1275, S4722
2017-2018: A604, S516
2019-2020: A2414, S919, S4728
2021-2022: A5284, S2614

2023-A4451 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.

2023-A4451 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4451
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ZEBROWSKI, PAULIN, THIELE, COOK, WEPRIN,
   OTIS,  STECK,  WILLIAMS,  WALLACE  --  read  once  and referred to the
   Committee on Mental Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental  hygiene  law  and  the  correction  law,  in
   relation  to  enhancing the assisted outpatient treatment program; and
   to amend Kendra's Law, in relation to making  the  provisions  thereof
   permanent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision  (f)  of  section  7.17  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (2) The oversight and monitoring role of the  program  coordinator  of
 the  assisted  outpatient  treatment  program  shall include each of the
 following:
   (i) that each assisted outpatient receives the treatment provided  for
 in  the  court  order  issued pursuant to section 9.60 of this [chapter]
 TITLE;
   (ii) that existing  services  located  in  the  assisted  outpatient's
 community are utilized whenever practicable;
   (iii)  that  a  case  manager or assertive community treatment team is
 designated for each assisted outpatient;
   (iv) that a mechanism exists  for  such  case  manager,  or  assertive
 community  treatment team, to regularly report the assisted outpatient's
 compliance, or lack of compliance with treatment, to the director of the
 assisted outpatient treatment program;
   (v) that directors of community services establish procedures  [which]
 THAT  provide  that  reports  of  persons who may be in need of assisted
 outpatient treatment are appropriately investigated in a timely  manner;
 [and]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08031-01-3
 A. 4451                             2
              

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