Bill Text: NY A10708 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to transportation of individuals; provides that within staffing limitations and upon request, an individual who is being transported to or from a facility may be accompanied by same gender staff.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.251 [A10708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10708-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10708
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 14, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. GUNTHER -- (at request of the Office for People
          with Developmental Disabilities) -- read  once  and  referred  to  the
          Committee on Mental Health
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to transportation of
          patients
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 33.17 of the mental hygiene law, as  renumbered  by
     2  chapter 978 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 33.17 Transportation of [female patients] individuals.
     4    [Any  female patient] Within staffing limitations and upon request, an
     5  individual who is being transported to or from a facility [shall] may be
     6  accompanied by [another female, unless accompanied by her father, broth-
     7  er, husband, or son] same gender staff.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14367-02-8