Bill Text: NY A05954 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that the state office of mental health is directed to make available, at no cost to the county, a qualified physician for the purpose of examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in certain counties.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)
Status: (Vetoed) 2013-12-18 - tabled [A05954 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A05954-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5954
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
March 11, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to examination of
persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in counties
with a population of less than eighty thousand
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (4) In counties with a population of less than [seventy-five] EIGHTY
5 thousand, the affirmation or affidavit required by paragraph three of
6 this subdivision may be made by a physician who is an employee of the
7 office. The office is authorized AND DIRECTED to make available, at no
8 cost to the county, a qualified physician for the purpose of making such
9 affirmation or affidavit consistent with the provisions of such para-
10 graph.
11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
12 the amendments made to paragraph 4 of subdivision (e) of section 9.60 of
13 the mental hygiene law by section one of this act shall not affect the
14 repeal of such section and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07518-03-3
