Bill Text: NY S01354 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee and to post such report on the office's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-02-01 - SUBSTITUTED BY A613 [S01354 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01354-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1354

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT in relation to requiring  monthly  status  reports  of  community
          investments  and the impact on inpatient census; and to repeal certain
          provisions of the mental hygiene law relating thereto

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

     1    Section 1. Section 7.49 of the mental hygiene law, as added by a chap-
     2  ter  of  the  laws  of 2022, amending the mental hygiene law relating to
     3  requiring monthly status reports of community investments and the impact
     4  on inpatient census, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  4253
     5  and A. 6506, is REPEALED.
     6    §  2.  The  commissioner  of the office of mental health shall provide
     7  monthly status reports of the community investments and  the  impact  on
     8  inpatient  census  to  the chair of the senate finance committee and the
     9  chair of the assembly ways and  means  committee  and  shall  post  such
    10  reports  on  the  office of mental health's publicly accessible website.
    11  Such reports shall include, but not be limited to:
    12    (a) state operated psychiatric facility census;
    13    (b) occurrence of census exceeding budgeted capacity;
    14    (c) occurrence of out of catchment area placements;
    15    (d) admissions and discharges;
    16    (e) rate of Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions to any  hospi-
    17  tal within thirty days of discharge;
    18    (f) Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits;
    19    (g) descriptions of new community service investments;
    20    (h) average length of stay and number of long-term stay patients; and
    21    (i)  an  explanation  of any material census reductions, when known to
    22  the facility.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    24  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the mental hygiene law

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03938-01-3
        S. 1354                             2

     1  relating  to  requiring  monthly status reports of community investments
     2  and the impact on inpatient census, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
     3  numbers  S.  4253  and  A.  6506,  takes effect; provided, however, that
     4  section  two  of this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth
     5  day after it shall have become a law.