Bill Text: NY S03872 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health and the commissioner of health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to collaboration by mental health providers and providers of home care services; provides further that regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be waived, nor shall regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-10 - referred to mental health [S03872 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03872-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3872--A
            Cal. No. 298
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 20, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered
          to first and second report, ordered to a third  reading,  amended  and
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the mental hygiene law, in relation to the geriatric
          service demonstration program to promote mental health and  home  care
          collaboration
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 7.41 of the mental hygiene  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  568  of  the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (c) The commissioner may adopt  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to
     5  implement  the  provisions  of  this  section, provided however that the
     6  commissioner and the commissioner of health shall be authorized to waive
     7  rules and regulations of the office, and of the  department  of  health,
     8  respectively,  to  address  barriers  to  collaboration by mental health
     9  providers and providers of home care services under subdivision  (a)  of
    10  this   section,   including   barriers  related  to  medical  assistance
    11  reimbursement, service procedures, care  coordination  and  direct  care
    12  worker  training  applicable  to  such providers; provided further, that
    13  regulations pertaining to patient safety may not be  waived,  nor  shall
    14  any regulations be waived if such waiver would risk patient safety.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10086-02-9