Bill Text: NY A08920 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires certain residential adult care facilities that house individuals with traumatic brain injuries to hold a certification or professional license or employ a resident manager who holds a current professional license as a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, licensed rehabilitation professional, certified brain injury specialist (CBIS) or licensed mental health professional who is trained and experienced in the care and rehabilitation of residents with traumatic brain injury.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-19 - referred to health [A08920 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08920-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8920

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 19, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  social services law, in relation to residential
          programs for adults with traumatic brain injuries

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

     1    Section  1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
     2  461-n to read as follows:
     3    § 461-n. Residential care programs for  adults  with  traumatic  brain
     4  injuries.  Any  residential  adult  care facility serving residents with
     5  traumatic brain injury must hold a national certification by the academy
     6  of certified brain  injury  specialists  as  a  certified  brain  injury
     7  specialist  (CBIS),  or  hold a current professional license or employ a
     8  resident manager who holds a current professional license  as  a  physi-
     9  cian,  nurse  practitioner,  registered  nurse,  licensed rehabilitation
    10  professional, certified  brain  injury  specialist  (CBIS)  or  licensed
    11  mental  health  professional  who is trained and experienced in the care
    12  and rehabilitation of residents with traumatic brain injury.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    15  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    16  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  on  or  before
    17  such effective date.




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