Bill Text: NY S05121 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to notices to be posted in facilities licensed, certified or operated, by the office of mental health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-11-25 - signed chap.535 [S05121 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05121-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5121--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 10, 2019
                                       ___________

        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 -- reported  favorably  from  said  committee  and
          committed  to  the  Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to duties of provid-
          ers of service to people with developmental disabilities

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 16.13 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
     3    (e) Posting a visible notice.  Facilities licensed, certified or oper-
     4  ated by the office shall post signs in accordance with this subdivision.
     5  Such  signs shall be posted and visible where employee notices are post-
     6  ed, be not less than eight and one-half  inches  by  eleven  inches  and
     7  shall read: "In case of an  emergency, dial 911".
     8    § 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.
                                                                   LBD04890-11-9
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