Bill Text: NY S03872 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to collaboration by mental health providers and providers of home care services; provides further that regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be waived, nor shall regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-10 - referred to mental health [S03872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03872-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3872
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 20, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- 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  geriatric
          service  demonstration  program to promote mental health and home care
          collaboration
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision (c) 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    (c)  The  commissioner  may  adopt  rules and regulations necessary to
     5  implement the provisions of this  section,  provided  however  that  the
     6  commissioner and the commissioner of health shall be authorized to waive
     7  rules  and  regulations  of the office, and of the department of health,
     8  respectively, to address barriers  to  collaboration  by  mental  health
     9  providers  and  providers of home care services under subdivision (a) of
    10  this  section,  including  barriers  related   to   medical   assistance
    11  reimbursement,  service  procedures,  care  coordination and direct care
    12  worker training applicable to such providers.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10086-01-9