Bill Text: NY S01277 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01277 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S01277-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1277 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DUANE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the discharge and release of patients into the community THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (g) of section 29.15 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 433 of the laws of 1976, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 2. a specific recommendation MADE BY EITHER THE CERTIFIED PSYCHOLOGIST 5 OR A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER of the type of residence in which the 6 patient is to live and a listing of the services available to the 7 patient in such residence. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 9 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00960-01-1