Bill Text: NY A07172 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to orders not to resuscitate.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A07172 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07172-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7172--A Cal. No. 259 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, GOTTFRIED, BRONSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. LIFTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to orders not to resuscitate; and to repeal article 29-B of the public health law relating to orders not to resuscitate for residents of mental hygiene facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Article 29-B of the public health law is REPEALED. 2 § 2. Section 2994-b of the public health law is amended by adding a 3 new subdivision 1-a to read as follows: 4 1-a. This article shall also apply to decisions regarding orders not 5 to resuscitate for a patient who lacks decision-making capacity in a 6 hospital as defined by section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law. 7 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 2994-cc of the public health law, as 8 amended by chapter 430 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as 9 follows: 10 5. Consent by a patient or a surrogate for a patient [in a mental11hygiene facility shall be governed by article twenty-nine-B of this12chapter] in a facility operated or licensed by the office of mental 13 health shall be governed by this article. Consent by a patient who is 14 intellectually or otherwise developmentally disabled and is eligible for 15 life-sustaining treatment decision pursuant to section seventeen hundred 16 fifty-b of the surrogate's court procedure act shall be governed by that 17 section. 18 § 4. Subdivision 5 of section 2994-cc of the public health law, as 19 amended by chapter 708 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 20 follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01154-02-0A. 7172--A 2 1 5. Consent by a patient or a surrogate for a patient [in a mental2hygiene facility shall be governed by article twenty-nine-B of this3chapter] in a facility operated or licensed by the office of mental 4 health shall be governed by this article. Consent by a patient who is 5 intellectually or otherwise developmentally disabled and is eligible for 6 life-sustaining treatment decision pursuant to section seventeen hundred 7 fifty-b of the surrogate's court procedure act shall be governed by that 8 section. 9 § 5. Section 2994-ff of the public health law, as added by chapter 8 10 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 11 § 2994-ff. Interinstitutional transfer. If a patient with a nonhospi- 12 tal order not to resuscitate is admitted to a hospital, or if a hospital 13 patient with an order not to resuscitate is transferred from a hospital 14 to a different hospital, the order shall be treated as an order not to 15 resuscitate for a patient transferred from another hospital, and shall 16 be governed by [article twenty-nine-CC of this chapter, except that any17such order for a patient admitted to a mental hygiene facility shall be18governed by article twenty-nine-B] section twenty-nine hundred ninety- 19 four-l of this chapter. 20 § 6. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 708 of the laws of 22 2019 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section 23 four of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 24 manner as such chapter of the laws of 2019 takes effect.