Relates to including certain information about seeking extreme risk protection orders in written service plans for discharge and conditional release of patients to the community.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10716
IN ASSEMBLY
July 1, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Paulin) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to including certain
information about seeking extreme risk protection orders in written
service plans for discharge and conditional release of patients to the
community
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subdivision (g) of section 29.15 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as added by chapter 306 of the laws of 1995, is
3 amended and a new paragraph 6 is added to read as follows:
4 [(5) an] 5. An evaluation of the patient's need and potential eligi-
5 bility public benefits following discharge or conditional release,
6 including public assistance, medicaid, and supplemental security income.
7 6. Material providing information related to seeking extreme risk
8 protection orders, pursuant to article sixty-three-A of the civil prac-
9 tice law and rules. Such material shall inform the patient, and an
10 authorized representative of such patient who has actively participated
11 in the development of a plan for such patient's discharge or conditional
12 release pursuant to subdivision (f) of this section, and who may act as
13 a petitioner, as such term is defined by section sixty-three hundred
14 forty of the civil practice law and rules, to file an application for an
15 extreme risk protection order in accordance with section sixty-three
16 hundred forty-one of the civil practice law and rules. Such material
17 shall also include the factors that a court may consider in determining
18 whether grounds for issuing an extreme risk protection order exist, as
19 provided by subdivision two of section sixty-three hundred forty-two of
20 the civil practice law and rules.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16440-01-0
