Authorizes a certified psychologist or a certified nurse practitioner, in addition to other authorized individuals, to make a recommendation of the type of residence in which a patient is to live upon release into the community.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1277--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. DUANE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities -- recommitted to the Committee on Mental Health
and Developmental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the discharge and
release of patients into the community
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision (g) of section 29.15 of the
2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 433 of the laws of 1976, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. a specific recommendation of the type of residence in which the
5 patient is to live and a listing of the services available to the
6 patient in such residence made by the certified psychologist, certified
7 nurse practitioner or other individual authorized to make such recommen-
8 dation.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
10 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00960-03-2
