Bill Text: NY A03461 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.98 [A03461 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A03461-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3461--C 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, RIVERA, STIRPE, GOTTFRIED, CRESPO, GALEF, ROBINSON, FAHY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, MAGEE, MARKEY, SIMON, STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to enacting "Peter Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Peter Falk's 2 law". 3 § 2. Subdivision (c) of section 81.16 of the mental hygiene law is 4 amended by adding three new paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 to read as follows: 5 4. The order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to 6 receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, the intended dispo- 7 sition of the remains of the decedent, funeral arrangements and final 8 resting place when that information is known or can be reasonably ascer- 9 tained by the guardian. 10 5. The order of appointment may identify the person or persons enti- 11 tled to notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical 12 facility. 13 6. The order of appointment may identify the persons entitled to visit 14 the incapacitated person, if they so choose. However, the identification 15 of such persons in the order shall in no way limit the persons entitled 16 to visit the incapacitated person. 17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07225-08-6
