Bill Text: NY A06510 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs local government units providing services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities to create a single point of access system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to mental health [A06510 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06510-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6510
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Mental Health
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  directing  local
         government units providing services to individuals with mental illness
         or  developmental  disabilities  to  create  a  single point of access
         system
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision (a) of section 41.13 of the mental hygiene law
    2  is amended by adding a new paragraph 17 to read as follows:
    3    17.  CREATE,  DIRECT  AND EXERCISE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY OVER A SINGLE
    4  POINT  OF  ACCESS  SYSTEM  TO  FACILITATE  ENTRY  TO  CARE  COORDINATION
    5  SERVICES,  RESIDENTIAL  PLACEMENT,  REHABILITATIVE  SERVICES,  AND OTHER
    6  SERVICES FOR HIGH NEED ADULTS AND CHILDREN. THE SINGLE POINT  OF  ACCESS
    7  SYSTEM  MAY  BE  OPERATED  EITHER INDIVIDUALLY BY THE LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL
    8  UNIT OR COLLECTIVELY IN COOPERATION WITH ONE OR MORE OTHER LOCAL GOVERN-
    9  MENTAL UNITS. SEPARATE SINGLE POINT OF ACCESS SYSTEMS MAY BE ESTABLISHED
   10  IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF A TARGETED POPULATION BASED ON CRITERIA
   11  INCLUDING, BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO,  AGE,  DISABILITY,  VETERAN  STATUS  OR
   12  SPECIFIC SERVICE NEED SUCH AS HOUSING OR CARE COORDINATION. SINGLE POINT
   13  OF ACCESS SYSTEMS SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO:
   14    (I)  RECEIVE  REFERRALS  OF  ALL  PERSONS  WITH A MENTAL DISABILITY AS
   15  DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF THIS CHAPTER WHO ARE  IDENTIFIED  AS  A  HIGH
   16  NEED PERSON BY THE COMMISSIONER;
   17    (II)  RECEIVE  REFERRALS  REGARDLESS OF AGE, ABILITY TO PAY, OR HEALTH
   18  INSURANCE STATUS;
   19    (III) REQUIRE THE COOPERATION OF PROVIDERS OF CARE COORDINATION, HOUS-
   20  ING, HEALTH CARE, AND MANAGED CARE OPERATING WITHIN THE JURISDICTION  OF
   21  THE  LOCAL  GOVERNMENTAL UNIT TO DETERMINE THE APPROPRIATE LEVEL OF CARE
   22  AND SERVICE DELIVERY FOR DESIGNATED HIGH NEED PERSONS.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09515-01-3