STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7207 IN SENATE January 3, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 notice to local governments of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (e) of section 7.17 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. provide for a mechanism which may reasonably be expected to provide 5 notice to local governments, community organizations, employee labor 6 organizations, managerial and confidential employees, consumer and advo- 7 cacy groups of the potential for significant service reductions at such 8 state-operated hospitals and state-operated research institutes at least 9 twelve months and at most twenty-four months prior to commencing such 10 service reduction, provided, however, that this requirement shall be 11 deemed satisfied with respect to reductions at Central Islip Psychiatric 12 Center, Gowanda Psychiatric Center, Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, 13 Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Willard Psychiatric Center and Manhattan 14 Children's Psychiatric Center; and 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that 16 any notice issued pursuant to paragraph 3 of subdivision (e) of section 17 7.17 of the mental hygiene law prior to the effective date of this act 18 shall expire twelve months from the effective date of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14077-01-8