STATE OF NEW YORK
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8632
IN SENATE
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 the geriatric
service demonstration program, to promote mental health and home care
collaboration within the program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 7.41 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as added by chapter 568 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (a) The office shall establish a geriatric service demonstration
5 program to provide grants, within appropriations therefor, to providers
6 of mental health care to the elderly. The office is also authorized,
7 under the demonstration program, to foster and support collaboration
8 between providers of home care services licensed or certified under
9 article thirty-six of the public health law and mental health providers
10 for the integration of health and mental health care, and for all other
11 enumerated goals of this section. Such program shall be administered by
12 the office in cooperation with the state office for the aging and such
13 other state agencies as the commissioner shall determine are necessary
14 for the operation of the program.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15899-01-8
