Bill Text: NY A01118 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Mandates the creation of a reference list of businesses that provide locator technology designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - substituted by s5221a [A01118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01118-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1118--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Aging -- recommitted to the Committee on Aging in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the creation of  a
          reference  list of businesses that provide locator technology designed
          to assist in the expedited  location  of  individuals  afflicted  with
          Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  2010 to read as follows:
     3    §  2010.  Alzheimer's and dementia locator technology information.  1.
     4  The department, in conjunction  with  the  office  for  the  aging,  the
     5  department of social services and the state police, shall develop a list
     6  of  businesses and other entities that manufacture, distribute or other-
     7  wise offer locator technology or services  designed  to  assist  in  the
     8  expedited  location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or
     9  dementia who become lost or disoriented.    Such  businesses  and  other
    10  entities  may  register with the department to be included on such list.
    11  The department shall notify all physicians licensed to practice in  this
    12  state  of the existence of the list and shall make the list available to
    13  the general public through the department's website.  The list shall  be
    14  updated  by  the  department  as  needed,  and  may  be maintained on or
    15  connected to the websites of other state offices, including those  main-
    16  tained  by  the office for the aging, the department of social services,
    17  the state police, and the department of mental health.
    18    2. As used in this section "locator  technology"  means  any  product,
    19  program  or  system used to assist in the location and identification of
    20  lost or disoriented persons, and includes but is not limited  to,  radio
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  wrist  transmitter  tracking systems, software programs, data bases, and
     2  products containing  identifying  information,  including  necklaces  or
     3  bracelets.
     4    3.  The commissioner shall promulgate such rules and regulations as he
     5  or she deems necessary to give effect to the provisions of this section.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     7  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law, provided that the
     8  department of health is immediately authorized and directed to take such
     9  actions as are necessary to implement this act, including the  promulga-
    10  tion of rules in accordance with the state administrative procedure act,
    11  on or before its effective date.