Directs the mental hygiene legal service and commissioner of developmental disabilities to maintain adequate 24 hour a day staffing for review orders to provide or deny life-sustaining treatment to persons with developmental disabilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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648
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, ENGLEBRIGHT, MOSLEY, COLTON, COOK,
CUSICK, BLAKE, ARROYO, HOOPER, STECK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
CRESPO, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the surrogate's court procedure act, in relation to
requiring certain agencies with authority to object to the implementa-
tion of medical orders for life-sustaining treatment to develop-
mentally disabled persons to be on-call
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 1750-b of the surrogate's court
2 procedure act is amended by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as
3 follows:
4 (f) The mental hygiene legal service and the commissioner of develop-
5 mental disabilities shall assure that appropriate staff is on-call and
6 available on a twenty-four hour a day basis every day of the year for
7 the purpose of receiving and acting on notices given pursuant to para-
8 graph (e) of this subdivision.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02913-01-7
