Bill Text: NY A03116 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders to be paid by the county in which the court is located for the first thirty days.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to mental health [A03116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03116-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3116
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to fees for services
          rendered to patients held in state inpatient  facilities  pursuant  to
          court orders
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 43.03 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of  2007,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (c)  Patients receiving services while being held pursuant to order of
     5  a criminal court, other than patients committed to the department pursu-
     6  ant to section 330.20 of the criminal procedure law, or for  examination
     7  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the family court shall not be liable to the
     8  department for such services. Fees due the department for such  services
     9  shall  be paid by the county in which such court is located [except that
    10  counties] for up  to  and  including  only  the  first  thirty  days  of
    11  services.  Counties  shall  not  be responsible for the cost of services
    12  rendered patients committed to the department pursuant to section 330.20
    13  of the criminal procedure law or patients committed  to  the  department
    14  pursuant to article ten of this chapter.
    15    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03920-01-9