Bill Text: NY A05431 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing confidential OMH records to attorneys representing patients or clients involuntarily placed in correctional special housing or residential mental health treatment units.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-09 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [A05431 Detail]
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5431
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 23, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL, GUNTHER, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED, McDONALD -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing confi-
dential office of mental health records to attorneys
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (c) of section 33.13 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. to attorneys representing patients or clients in proceedings in
5 which the patients' or clients' involuntary hospitalization, PLACEMENT
6 IN A CORRECTIONAL SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT OR RESIDENTIAL MENTAL HEALTH
7 TREATMENT UNIT, or assisted outpatient treatment is at issue.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09312-01-5
