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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6531
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 4, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing  confi-
          dential office of mental health records to attorneys
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (c)  of  section  33.13  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. to attorneys representing patients or  clients  in  proceedings  in
     5  which  the  patients' or clients' involuntary hospitalization, placement
     6  in a correctional special housing  unit  or  residential  mental  health
     7  treatment unit, or assisted outpatient treatment is at issue.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09685-01-3