Bill Text: NY A06992 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Increases the number of visits allowed each year with no prior notice, that can be made to facilities operated or licensed by the office for people with developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-23 - signed chap.445 [A06992 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06992-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6992--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 29, 2013
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       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
       AN  ACT  to  amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to increasing the
         number of visits with no prior notice that can be made to  a  facility
         per year
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 16.11 of the mental hygiene law,
    2  as amended by chapter 214 of the laws of 1993, is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    (a)  The  commissioner  shall  provide for the periodic visitation and
    5  inspection of each facility. Inspections shall be made as frequently  as
    6  the  commissioner  may  deem necessary but in any event such inspections
    7  shall be made on at least two occasions during each calendar  year[,  at
    8  least  one  of]  which shall be without prior notice, provided, however,
    9  that where, in the discretion of the commissioner, an operating  certif-
   10  icate  has  been  issued to a program with a history of compliance and a
   11  record of providing a high quality of care, the periodic inspection  and
   12  visitation  required  by  this  subdivision  shall be made at least once
   13  during each calendar year provided such visit  shall  be  without  prior
   14  notice.
   15    S 2.  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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