STATE OF NEW YORK
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11082
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing more
information on client service reports
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (b) of section 29.18 of the mental hygiene law,
2 as amended by chapter 340 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (b) A client service report shall be prepared for each patient or
5 client receiving services or treatment in a department facility, or
6 program to include, but not be limited to, information regarding the
7 types, location, date and estimated costs of services and names of
8 persons responsible for providing such services to each patient or
9 client during the course of [his] such patient or client's treatment or
10 during each twelve month period of treatment, whichever time period is
11 shorter. Identification of persons responsible for providing such
12 services, including in medical records provided to the patient at any
13 time, shall be limited to their employee identification number, first
14 name and first initial of last name when full name identification may
15 place the personal safety of such individual in jeopardy. Such report
16 shall be made available as hereinafter prescribed no later than thirty
17 days after the end of such course of treatment if such course is less
18 than twelve months in duration, or after the anniversary date of the
19 patient's admission to a department facility or of the initial partic-
20 ipation in a program or course of treatment of an individual who is not
21 a resident of the department facility if the program or course of treat-
22 ment is more than twelve months in duration.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15553-01-6
