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