Requires certain residential adult care facilities that house individuals with traumatic brain injuries to hold a certification or professional license or employ a resident manager who holds a current professional license as a physician, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, licensed rehabilitation professional, certified brain injury specialist (CBIS) or licensed mental health professional who is trained and experienced in the care and rehabilitation of residents with traumatic brain injury.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4588
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to residential
programs for adults with traumatic brain injuries
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section
2 461-n to read as follows:
3 § 461-n. Residential care programs for adults with traumatic brain
4 injuries. Any residential adult care facility serving residents with
5 traumatic brain injury must hold a national certification by the academy
6 of certified brain injury specialists as a certified brain injury
7 specialist (CBIS), or hold a current professional license or employ a
8 resident manager who holds a current professional license as a physi-
9 cian, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, licensed rehabilitation
10 professional, certified brain injury specialist (CBIS) or licensed
11 mental health professional who is trained and experienced in the care
12 and rehabilitation of residents with traumatic brain injury.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediately, the
15 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
16 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
17 to be made on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02919-01-5
