Bill Text: NY A04670 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that gaps in services to the multiply disabled be identified and filled in the statewide goals and objectives of the offices of the department of mental hygiene; requires the statewide five-year comprehensive plan for services to the mentally disabled include a review and evaluation of an implemented or planned shift and/or increase in medical assistance funding for services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-04 - enacting clause stricken [A04670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A04670-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4670
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. RIVERA,  AUBRY,  LUPARDO, PEOPLES-STOKES,
         LIFTON,  ROBINSON,  MILLMAN,  N. RIVERA,  CAHILL,  SCHROEDER,  JAFFEE,
         KAVANAGH,  ABBATE  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. BRENNAN, CLARK,
         COOK, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, HEASTIE, McENENY, PHEFFER, J. RIVERA,  WEIS-
         ENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to the statewide
         goals and objectives of  the  offices  of  the  department  of  mental
         hygiene
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subparagraph e of paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section
    2  5.07 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 223 of the laws of
    3  1992, is amended to read as follows:
    4    e. emphasize that gaps in services be IDENTIFIED AND filled, and  that
    5  services are provided to the multiply disabled.
    6    S  2.    Subparagraphs  i  and  j of paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of
    7  section 5.07 of the mental hygiene law, subparagraph i  as  amended  and
    8  subparagraph j as added by section 1 of part E of chapter 58 of the laws
    9  of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
   10    i.   A REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF AN IMPLEMENTED OR PLANNED SHIFT AND/OR
   11  INCREASE IN MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FUNDING FOR SERVICES;
   12    J. to the extent practicable, all such information  required  pursuant
   13  to  this  paragraph shall be provided on a statewide, regional and indi-
   14  vidual state-operated hospital  and  state-operated  research  institute
   15  basis; and
   16    [j.]  K.  recommendations  on  the provision of state and local mental
   17  health services based on the development of best practices  by  programs
   18  promoting   culturally   and   linguistically  competent  mental  health
   19  services.
   20    S 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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