Bill Text: NY S03186 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Mandates the creation of a reference list of businesses that provide locator technology designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented, and requires physicians to disclose the existence of such technology to persons afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia and to maintain information regarding any technology utilized by such afflicted people.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-25 - PRINT NUMBER 3186A [S03186 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03186-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3186--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the creation of a reference list of businesses that provide locator technology designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or disoriented, and requiring physicians to disclose the existence of such technology to persons afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia and to maintain information regarding any technology utilized by such afflicted people The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding two new sections 2 2010 and 2011 to read as follows: 3 § 2010. Alzheimer's and dementia locator technology information. 1. 4 The department, in conjunction with the office for the aging, the 5 department of social services and the state police, shall develop and 6 maintain a comprehensive list of businesses and other entities that 7 manufacture, distribute or otherwise offer locator technology or 8 services designed to assist in the expedited location of individuals 9 afflicted with Alzheimer's disease or dementia who become lost or diso- 10 riented. The department shall notify all physicians licensed to practice 11 in this state of the existence of the list and shall make the list 12 available to the general public through the department's website. The 13 list shall be updated by the department on at least a semi-annual basis, 14 and may be maintained on or connected to the websites of other state 15 offices, including those maintained by the office for the aging, the 16 department of social services, the state police and the department of 17 mental health. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04133-02-6
