Bill Text: NY A01683 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Safeguards cash accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility under the control of the commissioner of mental health, the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities and the commissioner of alcoholism and substance abuse services.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A01683 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01683-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1683

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE,  VANEL,  WALSH -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to safeguarding cash
          accounts for people with developmental disabilities in a facility

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (f) of section 16.11 of the mental hygiene law
     2  is relettered subdivision (g) and a new subdivision (f) is added to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (f) The commissioner shall develop  a  uniform  statewide  policy  for
     5  conducting  audits  for  residents  of  article  sixteen  facilities for
     6  personal allowance and  cash  accounts.  The  developed  policies  shall
     7  include but shall not be limited to:
     8    (1) the frequency of the audits, who is responsible for conducting the
     9  audits, and how the audits shall be conducted;
    10    (2) training of appropriate staff on conducting an audit in accordance
    11  with  policies and procedures and appropriate management of a resident's
    12  personal allowance or a cash account;
    13    (3) the purchase and appropriate use of gift cards by or on behalf  of
    14  residents,  including, but not limited to, documentation requirements by
    15  staff, in relation to including gift  cards  in  a  resident's  personal
    16  expenditure  plan  and  notification  to  supervisors of the purchase or
    17  delivery of a gift card to a resident; and
    18    (4) type of purchases which require receipts or documentation  by  the
    19  appropriate  staff  as well as what types of documentation are appropri-
    20  ate.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    22  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    23  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    24  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    25  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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