Bill Text: NY A05185 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5185

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires certain hospitals and correctional facilities to have a staff member specifically trained in filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to mental health [A05185 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05185-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5185

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain
          facilities to have a  staff  member  specifically  trained  in  filing
          assisted outpatient treatment petitions

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

     1    Section 1. Section 9.60 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (t) to read as follows:
     3    (t) (1) The commissioner, in consultation  with  the  commissioner  of
     4  health  and  the  commissioner of corrections and community supervision,
     5  shall require hospitals licensed or operated by  the  office  of  mental
     6  health  operating a program pursuant to subdivision (b) of this section,
     7  hospitals subject to the  provisions  of  article  twenty-eight  of  the
     8  public  health law and correctional facilities as defined in section two
     9  of the correction law to have a staff  member  specifically  trained  in
    10  filing assisted outpatient treatment petitions.
    11    (2)  When  an  individual being released from a mental health hospital
    12  under section 7.17 of this chapter, a hospital subject to the provisions
    13  of article twenty-eight of the public  health  law,  or  a  correctional
    14  facility  as defined in section two of the correction law, if such indi-
    15  vidual is found to have a history of mental illness, or  the  individual
    16  is determined during a court ordered mandatory evaluation to suffer from
    17  mental  illness,  such  individual shall not be released until he or she
    18  has been counseled on and registered with services which shall be avail-
    19  able to such individual once he or she is released.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    21  have become a law; provided, however the amendments made to section 9.60
    22  of  the  mental  hygiene  law  made by section one of this act shall not
    23  affect the repeal of such section and shall be  deemed  repealed  there-
    24  with.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05199-01-3