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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5431
 
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 23, 2015
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. O'DONNELL, GUNTHER, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  GOTTFRIED, McDONALD -- read once and referred  to  the
          Committee on Mental Health
 
        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing confi-
          dential office of mental health records to attorneys
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  3  of  subdivision (c) of section 33.13 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 158 of the laws  of  2005,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3.  to  attorneys  representing  patients or clients in proceedings in
     5  which the patients' or clients' involuntary  hospitalization,  placement
     6  in  a  correctional  special  housing  unit or residential mental health
     7  treatment unit, or assisted outpatient treatment is at issue.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09312-01-5