Bill Text: NY S05154 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for an appointment of a guardian for personal needs or property management; provides that the order of appointment shall identify the persons entitled to receive notice of the incapacitated person's death, funeral arrangements, receive notice of the incapacitated person's transfer to a medical facility and persons entitled to visit such person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3461C [S05154 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05154-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5154--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 5, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Mental  Health  and
          Developmental  Disabilities -- reported favorably from said committee,
          ordered to first report, amended on first report, ordered to a  second
          report  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining  its place in the order of
          second report -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Mental  Health  and
          Developmental Disabilities 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 mental hygiene law, in relation to  enacting  "Peter
          Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  "Peter  Falk's
     2  law".
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  (a)  of section 81.20 of the mental hygiene law is
     4  amended by adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:
     5    8. a guardian shall inform the relatives, including but not limited to
     6  the children, of an elder or dependent incapacitated adult whenever they
     7  are admitted to a medical facility for acute care for a period of  three
     8  days or more or in the event of death. In the case of death, the guardi-
     9  an  shall  inform  the  relatives  of  any  funeral arrangements and the
    10  location of the incapacitated person's final resting place.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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