Bill Text: NY A04308 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to identify barriers to participation in the program and make recommendations to address such barriers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-11 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [A04308 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04308-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4308 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the geriatric service demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7.41 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision (d) to read as follows: 3 (d) On a periodic basis, the commissioner shall identify barriers 4 which may prevent an authorized provider from participating in the 5 demonstration program, pursuant to subdivision (a) of this section. The 6 commissioner shall share the identified barriers with the commissioner 7 of the appropriate state agency, as well as any recommendations to 8 address such barriers. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04489-01-3
