Bill Text: NY S06752 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities to provide transitional care for certain persons.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S06752 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06752-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6752

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 25, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  authorizing  the
          office  of  mental health and the office for people with developmental
          disabilities to provide transitional care for certain persons

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  6  of subdivision (a) of section 7.37-a of the
     2  mental hygiene law is renumbered paragraph 7.
     3    § 2. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (a) of section 7.37-a  of  the  mental
     4  hygiene law, as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1998, is amended and
     5  a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
     6    5.  whose  residential  needs  can be met by the facility in which the
     7  persons resided prior to becoming age twenty-one or becoming  ineligible
     8  for free educational services; [and]
     9    6.  who were disabled and in need of residential educational placement
    10  prior to becoming twenty-one years of age, provided that such person was
    11  abandoned and that such transitional care shall only be  provided  until
    12  residential educational placement is found for such person; and
    13    §  3.  Paragraph 6 of subdivision (a) of section 13.37-a of the mental
    14  hygiene law is renumbered paragraph 7.
    15    § 4. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (a) of section 13.37-a of  the  mental
    16  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 106 of the laws of 2015, is amended
    17  and a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
    18    5. whose residential needs can be met by the  facility  in  which  the
    19  persons  resided prior to becoming age twenty-one or becoming ineligible
    20  for free educational services; [and]
    21    6. who were disabled and in need of residential educational  placement
    22  prior to becoming twenty-one years of age, provided that such person was
    23  abandoned  and  that such transitional care shall only be provided until
    24  residential educational placement is found for such persons; and
    25    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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