Bill Text: NY A09034 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the requirements for reporting deaths and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-01 - signed chap.64 [A09034 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A09034-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9034
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to reporting deaths
          and felony crimes in certain adult care facilities
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 461-m of the social services law, as amended by a
     2  chapter of the laws of 2017, amending the social services  law  relating
     3  to  death  and felony crime reports in certain adult care facilities, as
     4  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 787-A and A. 2702,  is  amended
     5  to read as follows:
     6    §  461-m.  Death  and felony crime reporting. The operator of an adult
     7  home, enriched housing program or residence for  adults  shall  have  an
     8  affirmative duty to report any death, or attempted suicide of a resident
     9  to  the department of health within twenty-four hours of its occurrence,
    10  and shall also have an affirmative duty to report to an appropriate  law
    11  enforcement  authority  if  the  operator discovers an incident that the
    12  operator believes or reasonably should believe would constitute a felony
    13  crime against a resident of such facility as soon as possible, or in any
    14  event within twenty-four hours. In addition, [any] the  operator  [of  a
    15  facility  defined  in  section four hundred eighty-eight of this chapter
    16  that is subject to this section,] shall[, in addition,] send any reports
    17  involving a resident who had at any time received services from a mental
    18  hygiene service provider to the justice center  for  the  protection  of
    19  people with special needs [within twenty-four hours of the occurrence of
    20  the  death  or attempted suicide or of the discovery of an incident that
    21  the operator believed or reasonably should have believed to be a  felony
    22  crime].
    23    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    24  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017, amending  the  social  services
    25  law  relating  to  death  and felony crime reports in certain adult care
    26  facilities, as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  787-A  and  A.
    27  2702, takes effect.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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