Directs the department of state to establish and maintain a statewide registry of mental hygiene and child supervision residential facilities which shall include residential facilities for juvenile delinquents and persons in need of supervision subject to the supervision of the office of children and family services, for the mentally ill subject to the supervision of the office of mental health, for the mentally retarded and developmentally disabled subject to the supervision of the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities, and for the chemically dependent subject to the supervision of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4431
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the depart-
ment of state to establish a statewide registry of mental hygiene and
child supervision residential facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 101-c
2 to read as follows:
3 § 101-c. Statewide registry of mental hygiene and child supervision
4 residential facilities. 1. The department of state shall establish and
5 maintain a statewide registry of mental hygiene and child supervision
6 residential facilities. Such registry shall be composed of the name and
7 address of every residential housing facility:
8 a. subject to supervision of the office of children and family
9 services pursuant to article nineteen-G of this chapter;
10 b. subject to regulation of the office of mental health pursuant to
11 the mental hygiene law;
12 c. subject to the regulation of the office for people with develop-
13 mental disabilities; and
14 d. subject to the regulation of the office of alcoholism and substance
15 abuse services.
16 2. Commencing on the first of January, two thousand sixteen and on the
17 first of every other month thereafter, the offices of children and fami-
18 ly services, mental health, alcoholism and substance abuse services, and
19 the office for people with developmental disabilities shall submit to
20 the department of state a list of the name and address of every residen-
21 tial housing facility subject to the jurisdiction of such office, which
22 is required to be included in the statewide registry of mental hygiene
23 and child supervision residential facilities pursuant to subdivision one
24 of this section.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. The statewide registry of mental hygiene and child supervision
2 residential facilities shall be regularly updated and maintained in an
3 accurate manner by the department of state. Such department shall make
4 the registry available to the general public in print, electronic form
5 and on a website maintained by the department.
6 4. The department of state shall transmit a copy of the statewide
7 registry of mental hygiene and child supervision residential facilities
8 to the legislature not less than twice each year.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016, provided that any
10 actions necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effec-
11 tive date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such
12 date.
