Bill Text: NY A03461 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - signed chap.98 [A03461 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03461-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3461--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 23, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MAGNARELLI, RIVERA, STIRPE, CLARK, GOTTFRIED,
          CRESPO, GALEF, ROBINSON, FAHY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK,
          MAGEE, MARKEY, SIMON -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Judiciary  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted  to  the
          Committee  on  Judiciary in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to enacting "Peter
          Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as "Peter Falk's
     2  law".
     3    § 2. Subdivision (a) of section 81.20 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:
     5    8. a guardian shall inform the relatives, including but not limited to
     6  the children, of an elder or dependent incapacitated adult whenever they
     7  are  admitted to a medical facility for acute care for a period of three
     8  days or more or in the event of death. In the case of death, the guardi-
     9  an shall inform the  relatives  of  any  funeral  arrangements  and  the
    10  location of the incapacitated person's final resting place.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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