Bill Text: NY S01277 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1277 (Prior Session Legislation)

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
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                                         1277
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 6, 2011
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       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