Bill Text: NY A00648 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the mental hygiene legal service and commissioner of developmental disabilities to maintain adequate 24 hour a day staffing for review orders to provide or deny life-sustaining treatment to persons with developmental disabilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to judiciary [A00648 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A00648-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 648 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ENGLEBRIGHT, MOSLEY, COLTON, COOK, CUSICK, BLAKE, ARROYO, HOOPER, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CRESPO, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to requiring certain agencies with authority to object to the implementa- tion of medical orders for life-sustaining treatment to develop- mentally disabled persons to be on-call The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1750-b of the surrogate's court 2 procedure act is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as 3 follows: 4 (f) The mental hygiene legal service and the commissioner of develop- 5 mental disabilities shall assure that appropriate staff is on-call and 6 available on a twenty-four hour a day basis every day of the year for 7 the purpose of receiving and acting on notices given pursuant to para- 8 graph (e) of this subdivision. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02913-01-7
