Bill Text: NY A10938 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration within the program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-10-01 - signed chap.305 [A10938 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10938-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10938 IN ASSEMBLY May 29, 2018 ___________ 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 the geriatric service demonstration program, to promote mental health and home care collaboration within the program 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 7.41 of the mental hygiene law, 2 as added by chapter 568 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (a) The office shall establish a geriatric service demonstration 5 program to provide grants, within appropriations therefor, to providers 6 of mental health care to the elderly. The office is also authorized, 7 under the demonstration program, to foster and support collaboration 8 between providers of home care services licensed or certified under 9 article thirty-six of the public health law and mental health providers 10 for the integration of health and mental health care, and for all other 11 enumerated goals of this section. Such program shall be administered by 12 the office in cooperation with the state office for the aging and such 13 other state agencies as the commissioner shall determine are necessary 14 for the operation of the program. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15899-01-8
