Bill Text: NY A07635 | 2009-2010 | 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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to mental health [A07635 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A07635-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7635
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    April 17, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. P. RIVERA, AUBRY, LIFTON, N. RIVERA, LUPARDO,
         ROBINSON,  CAHILL,  PEOPLES,  MILLMAN,  SCHROEDER,   ALFANO,   JAFFEE,
         KAVANAGH,  ABBATE  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. BARRA, BRENNAN,
         CLARK, COOK, DIAZ,  GOTTFRIED,  GUNTHER,  HEASTIE,  McENENY,  PHEFFER,
         J. RIVERA,  WEISENBERG  --  read once and referred to the Committee on
         Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
       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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