Bill Text: NY A07384 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the guardian of a deceased incapacitated person to notify the local department of social services within 20 days of such death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A07384 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A07384-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7384 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 3, 2011 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notifying the local department of social services upon the death of an incapacitated person THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 81.44 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2008, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. serve a copy of the statement of death upon the court examiner, the 5 duly appointed personal representative of the decedent's estate, or, if 6 no [person] PERSONAL representative has been appointed, then upon the 7 personal representative named in the decedent's will or any trust 8 instrument, if known, UPON THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES and 9 upon the public administrator of the chief fiscal officer of the county 10 in which the guardian was appointed, and 11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01206-01-1