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
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                                         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
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