Bill Text: NY A04109 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides the community guardian program shall obtain annually a statement prepared by a physician, psychologist, nurse clinician, social worker, or other person, evaluating the condition and current functional level of the person for whom the community guardian program serves as guardian; the appointing court should be informed of the results of the evaluation.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-06 - signed chap.579 [A04109 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A04109-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4109--B Cal. No. 114 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Mental Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the community guardianship program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 3 of section 473-d of the 2 social services law, as added by chapter 846 of the laws of 1986 and 3 such section as renumbered by chapter 395 of the laws of 1995, is 4 amended to read as follows: 5 (g) the community guardian program shall obtain [annual assessments6from two qualified psychiatrists or one qualified psychiatrist and one7qualified psychologist who are independent of the community guardian8program of persons for whom it serves as committee or conservator to9determine whether continuation of the guardianship is necessary, and the10appointing court shall be informed of the results of such assessments11and may discharge the community guardian program as conservator or12committee pursuant to sections 77.35 and 78.27 of the mental hygiene13law] annually a statement prepared by a physician, psychologist, nurse 14 clinician, or social worker, or other person evaluating the condition 15 and functional level of a person for whom the community guardian program 16 serves as guardian pursuant to paragraph five of subdivision (b) of 17 section 81.31 of the mental hygiene law and the appointing court shall 18 be informed of the results of such evaluation or examination and may 19 discharge or modify the powers of the guardian pursuant to section 81.36 20 of the mental hygiene law. The person conducting the evaluation pursuant 21 to this paragraph shall not be affiliated with a community guardian 22 program and shall be acting within their lawful scope of practice as 23 established under the education law; 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05899-04-9