Bill Text: NY A01370 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to notices be posted in facilities licensed, certified or operated, by the office of mental health.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-11-25 - signed chap.535 [A01370 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01370-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1370--C Cal. No. 178 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, THIELE, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading -- again amended on third reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading 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. LBD04890-10-9
