Bill Text: NY S06607 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate and display information about available acute beds in public and private psychiatric facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-04-29 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S06607 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06607-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        6607--A
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 12, 2014
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       Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
         mental Disabilities -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the creation of
         an acute psychiatric bed registry
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
    2  9.65 to read as follows:
    3  S 9.65 ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY.
    4    (A) THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP  AND  ADMINISTER  A  WEB-BASED  ACUTE
    5  PSYCHIATRIC  BED REGISTRY TO COLLECT, AGGREGATE, AND DISPLAY INFORMATION
    6  ABOUT AVAILABLE ACUTE BEDS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE  INPATIENT  PSYCHIATRIC
    7  FACILITIES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS
    8  TO  FACILITATE  THE IDENTIFICATION AND DESIGNATION OF FACILITIES FOR THE
    9  TEMPORARY DETENTION AND TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MEET  THE  CRITERIA
   10  FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
   11    (B) THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY CREATED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
   12  (A) OF THIS SECTION SHALL:
   13    1.  INCLUDE DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION FOR EVERY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INPA-
   14  TIENT PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY AND EVERY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE CRISIS STABILIZA-
   15  TION UNIT IN THE STATE, INCLUDING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE FACILITY;
   16    2. PROVIDE REAL-TIME INFORMATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF BEDS AVAILABLE AT
   17  EACH FACILITY AND, FOR EACH AVAILABLE BED, THE TYPE OF PATIENT THAT  MAY
   18  BE  ADMITTED,  THE LEVEL OF SECURITY PROVIDED, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION
   19  THAT MAY BE NECESSARY TO  ALLOW  EMPLOYEES  OR  DESIGNEES  OF  COMMUNITY
   20  SERVICES  BOARDS  AND  EMPLOYEES  OF  PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES TO IDENTIFY
   21  APPROPRIATE FACILITIES FOR DETENTION AND TREATMENT  OF  INDIVIDUALS  WHO
   22  MEET THE CRITERIA FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE; AND
   23    3.  ALLOW  EMPLOYEES  AND  DESIGNEES  OF COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARDS AND
   24  EMPLOYEES OF PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES TO PERFORM SEARCHES OF THE  REGISTRY
   25  TO  IDENTIFY  AVAILABLE  BEDS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE FOR THE DETENTION AND
   26  TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MEET THE CRITERIA FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13783-03-4
       S. 6607--A                          2
    1    (C) EVERY STATE FACILITY, COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, BEHAVIORAL  HEALTH
    2  AUTHORITY, AND PRIVATE PROVIDER LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PARTIC-
    3  IPATE  IN  THE  ACUTE  PSYCHIATRIC  BED REGISTRY ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
    4  SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION AND SHALL  DESIGNATE  AN  INDIVIDUAL  TO
    5  SUBMIT  INFORMATION  FOR INCLUSION IN THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY
    6  AND SERVE AS A POINT OF CONTACT FOR ADDRESSING REQUESTS FOR  INFORMATION
    7  RELATED TO DATA REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY. INFORMA-
    8  TION  REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY SHALL BE UPDATED AT
    9  LEAST DAILY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   11  it shall have become a law.