Requires that gaps in services to the multiply disabled be identified and filled in the statewide goals and objectives of the offices of the department of mental hygiene; requires the statewide five-year comprehensive plan for services to the mentally disabled include a review and evaluation of an implemented or planned shift and/or increase in medical assistance funding for services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7635
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 17, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. P. RIVERA, AUBRY, LIFTON, N. RIVERA, LUPARDO,
ROBINSON, CAHILL, PEOPLES, MILLMAN, SCHROEDER, ALFANO, JAFFEE,
KAVANAGH, ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARRA, BRENNAN,
CLARK, COOK, DIAZ, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, HEASTIE, McENENY, PHEFFER,
J. RIVERA, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the statewide
goals and objectives of the offices of the department of mental
hygiene
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph e of paragraph 1 of subdivision (a) of section
2 5.07 of the mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 223 of the laws of
3 1992, is amended to read as follows:
4 e. emphasize that gaps in services be identified and filled, and that
5 services are provided to the multiply disabled.
6 § 2. Subparagraphs i and j of paragraph 2 of subdivision (b) of
7 section 5.07 of the mental hygiene law, subparagraph i as amended and
8 subparagraph j as added by section 1 of part E of chapter 58 of the laws
9 of 2007, are amended to read as follows:
10 i. a review and evaluation of an implemented or planned shift and/or
11 increase in medical assistance funding for services;
12 j. to the extent practicable, all such information required pursuant
13 to this paragraph shall be provided on a statewide, regional and indi-
14 vidual state-operated hospital and state-operated research institute
15 basis; and
16 [j.] k. recommendations on the provision of state and local mental
17 health services based on the development of best practices by programs
18 promoting culturally and linguistically competent mental health
19 services.
20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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