Bill Title: Establishes a bill of rights for children in residential care in facilities operated by various state agencies including mental health, social services and the division for youth, to assure that all children will receive appropriate care and treatment including the right to be free from abuse, to have an individualized treatment plan, to receive safe medication and communication with family members, to recreation, religious freedom and to an appropriate education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to mental health [A05439 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Amended) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Michael Benjamin [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-079	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Donna Lupardo [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-123	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Alan Maisel [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-059	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Nettie Mayersohn [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-027	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Joan Millman [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Nick Perry [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-058	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Audrey Pheffer [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-023	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Reilly [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-109	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Annette Robinson [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-056	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-067	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Mark Schroeder [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-050	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Robert Sweeney [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-011	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Darryl Towns [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-054	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Lifton [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-125	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember David Koon [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-135	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Ellen Jaffee [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-097	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Boyland [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-055	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Kevin Cahill [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-103	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Barbara Clark [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-033	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember William Colton [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-047	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Vivian Cook [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-032	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Senator Adriano Espaillat [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	SD-031	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Dennis Gabryszak [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-143	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Sandra Galef [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-095	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Deborah Glick [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-066	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Richard Gottfried [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-075	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Aileen Gunther [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-100	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Earlene Hooper [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Harvey Weisenberg [D]	Sponsor	Sponsored Bills	HD-020	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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