S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 fees for services
rendered patients held in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court
orders
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 43.03 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (c) Patients receiving services while being held pursuant to order of
5 a criminal court, other than patients committed to the department pursu-
6 ant to section 330.20 of the criminal procedure law, or for examination
7 pursuant to an order of the family court shall not be liable to the
8 department for such services. Fees due the department for such services
9 shall be paid by the county in which such court is located [except that
10 counties] FOR UP TO AND INCLUDING ONLY THE FIRST THIRTY DAYS OF
11 SERVICES. COUNTIES shall not be responsible for the cost of services
12 rendered patients committed to the department pursuant to section 330.20
13 of the criminal procedure law or patients committed to the department
14 pursuant to article ten of this chapter.
15 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
16 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07527-01-3