Bill Text: NY S05311 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires notification to the local department of social services upon the death of an incapacitated person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S05311 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05311-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5311 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 4, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. McDONALD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notifying the local department of social services upon the death of an incapacitated person THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (c) of section 81.44 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 175 of the laws of 2008, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 1. serve a copy of the statement of death upon the court examiner, the 5 duly appointed personal representative of the decedent's estate, or, if 6 no [person] PERSONAL representative has been appointed, then upon the 7 personal representative named in the decedent's will or any trust 8 instrument, if known, UPON THE LOCAL DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES and 9 upon the public administrator of the chief fiscal officer of the county 10 in which the guardian was appointed, and 11 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10864-01-1