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A07611 Summary:

BILL NO	A07611
SAME AS	SAME AS S05941
SPONSOR	Gunther
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR	Miller ML
Add §7.49, Ment Hyg L
Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee and to post such report on the office's website.

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A07611 Actions:

BILL NO	A07611
05/14/2019	referred to mental health
06/04/2019	reported referred to rules
06/12/2019	reported
06/12/2019	rules report cal.181
06/12/2019	ordered to third reading rules cal.181
06/17/2019	substituted by s5941
	S05941 AMEND= CARLUCCI
	05/16/2019	REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
	06/13/2019	COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES
	06/13/2019	ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1354
	06/13/2019	PASSED SENATE
	06/13/2019	DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
	06/13/2019	referred to mental health
	06/17/2019	substituted for a7611
	06/17/2019	ordered to third reading rules cal.181
	06/17/2019	passed assembly
	06/17/2019	returned to senate
	11/26/2019	DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
	12/06/2019	VETOED MEMO.188

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A07611 Committee Votes:

Committee:MENTAL HEALTH   Chair:Gunther      
DATE:06/04/2019AYE/NAY:12/0  Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules        
Gunther
Aye
Miller
Aye
Jaffee
Aye
Walsh
Aye
Rodriguez
Aye
Mikulin
Aye
Barrett
Aye
Jean-Pierre
Aye
Richardson
Excused
Santabarbara
Aye
De La Rosa
Aye
Fernandez
Aye
Frontus
Aye

Committee:RULES   Chair:Gottfried      
DATE:06/12/2019AYE/NAY:27/0  Action: Favorable         
Heastie
Excused
Kolb
Aye
Gottfried
Aye
Crouch
Aye
Lentol
Aye
Finch
Aye
Gantt
Excused
Barclay
Aye
Nolan
Aye
Raia
Aye
Weinstein
Aye
Hawley
Aye
Ortiz
Aye
Giglio
Aye
Pretlow
Aye
Malliotakis
Aye
Cook
Aye
Glick
Aye
Aubry
Aye
Englebright
Aye
Dinowitz
Aye
Colton
Aye
Magnarelli
Aye
Perry
Aye
Paulin
Absent
Titus
Excused
Peoples-Stokes
Aye
Benedetto
Aye
Lavine
Aye
Lupardo
Aye
Zebrowski
Aye

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A07611 Floor Votes:

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A07611 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7611
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 14, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Mental Health
 
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring monthly
          status reports of community investments and the  impact  on  inpatient
          census
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  7.49 to read as follows:
     3  § 7.49 Monthly status reports.
     4    The commissioner shall provide monthly status reports of the community
     5  investments  and  the  impact  on  inpatient  census to the chair of the
     6  senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly  ways  and  means
     7  committee  and shall post such reports on the office's publicly accessi-
     8  ble website. Such reports shall include, but not be limited to:
     9    (a) state operated psychiatric facility census;
    10    (b) occurrence of census exceeding budgeted capacity and reason;
    11    (c) occurrence of out of catchment area placements  that  are  due  to
    12  insufficient capacity in the catchment area of the hospital;
    13    (d) admissions and discharges;
    14    (e)  rate of Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions to any hospi-
    15  tal within thirty days of discharge;
    16    (f) Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits;
    17    (g) descriptions of new community service investments;
    18    (h) average length of stay and number of long-term stay patients; and
    19    (i) an explanation of any material census reductions,  when  known  to
    20  the facility.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11557-01-9

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