Relates to transportation of individuals; provides that within staffing limitations and upon request, an individual who is being transported to or from a facility may be accompanied by same gender staff.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8592
IN SENATE
May 10, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- (at request of the Office for People with
Developmental Disabilities) -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and
Developmental Disabilities
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to transportation of
patients
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 33.17 of the mental hygiene law, as renumbered by
2 chapter 978 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 33.17 Transportation of [female patients] individuals.
4 [Any female patient] Within staffing limitations and upon request, an
5 individual who is being transported to or from a facility [shall] may be
6 accompanied by [another female, unless accompanied by her father, broth-
7 er, husband, or son] same gender staff.
8 § 2. 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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