Bill Text: NY S05516 | 2023-2024 | 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 to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to participation in the program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-02-14 - referred to mental health [S05516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05516-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5516--A
            Cal. No. 1039

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 7, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROUK,  MANNION,  WEBB  -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Mental
          Health -- 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 amended by chapter 328 of the laws of 2019, 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.
                                                                   LBD04489-02-3