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Assembly Bill A11082

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Expands the amount of information required in client service reports

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2025-A11082 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Mental Health
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §29.18, Ment Hyg L

2025-A11082 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the amount of information required in client service reports to include the identity of persons who assist a client or patient.

2025-A11082 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11082
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 24, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Mental Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing more
   information on client service reports
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 29.18 of the mental hygiene law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  340 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (b) A client service report shall be  prepared  for  each  patient  or
 client  receiving  services  or  treatment  in a department facility, or
 program to include, but not be limited  to,  information  regarding  the
 types,  location,  date  and  estimated  costs  of services and names of
 persons responsible for providing  such  services  to  each  patient  or
 client  during the course of [his] SUCH PATIENT OR CLIENT'S treatment or
 during each twelve month period of treatment, whichever time  period  is
 shorter.    IDENTIFICATION  OF  PERSONS  RESPONSIBLE  FOR PROVIDING SUCH
 SERVICES, INCLUDING IN MEDICAL RECORDS PROVIDED TO THE  PATIENT  AT  ANY
 TIME,  SHALL  BE  LIMITED TO THEIR EMPLOYEE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER, FIRST
 NAME AND FIRST INITIAL OF LAST NAME WHEN FULL  NAME  IDENTIFICATION  MAY
 PLACE  THE  PERSONAL  SAFETY OF SUCH INDIVIDUAL IN JEOPARDY. Such report
 shall be made available as hereinafter prescribed no later  than  thirty
 days  after  the  end of such course of treatment if such course is less
 than twelve months in duration, or after the  anniversary  date  of  the
 patient's  admission  to a department facility or of the initial partic-
 ipation in a program or course of treatment of an individual who is  not
 a resident of the department facility if the program or course of treat-
 ment is more than twelve months in duration.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15553-01-6

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