Bill Text: NY A01481 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-12 - held for consideration in mental health [A01481 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01481-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1481 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 10, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the discharge and release of patients into the community THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (g) of section 29.15 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 433 of the laws of 1976, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. a specific recommendation MADE BY EITHER THE CERTIFIED PSYCHOLOGIST 5 OR A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER of the type of residence in which the 6 patient is to live and a listing of the services available to the 7 patient in such residence. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 9 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00960-01-1