Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a chronic mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.

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A126A-2011 Actions

• Apr 30, 2012: REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
• Apr 30, 2012: delivered to senate
• Apr 30, 2012: passed assembly
• Apr 26, 2012: advanced to third reading cal.477
• Apr 25, 2012: reported
• Jan 24, 2012: reported referred to ways and means
• Jan 9, 2012: committed to mental health
• Jan 4, 2012: ordered to third reading cal.9
• Jan 4, 2012: RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jan 4, 2012: DIED IN SENATE
• Jun 21, 2011: REFERRED TO RULES
• Jun 21, 2011: delivered to senate
• Jun 21, 2011: passed assembly
• Jun 14, 2011: amended on third reading 126a
• May 26, 2011: advanced to third reading cal.431
• May 24, 2011: reported
• Mar 22, 2011: reported referred to ways and means
• Jan 5, 2011: referred to mental health

A126A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                   126--A
                                                          Cal. No. 431

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                 (PREFILED)

                               January 5, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M. of A. CUSICK, TITONE -- read once and referred to the
    Committee on Mental Health -- reported from committee, advanced  to  a
    third  reading,  amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on
    the order of third reading

  AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  providing  a
    mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of resi-
    dential healthcare facilities

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 47.01 of the mental hygiene law,
  as amended by chapter 7 of the laws of  2007,  is  amended  to  read  as
  follows:

    (a) There shall be a mental hygiene legal service of the state in each
  judicial  department.  The  service  shall  provide  legal assistance to
  patients or residents of a facility as defined in section 1.03  of  this
  chapter,    PATIENTS  OR  RESIDENTS OF RESIDENTIAL HEALTHCARE FACILITIES
  LICENSED AND OPERATING PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-EIGHT  OF  THE  PUBLIC
  HEALTH LAW WHO HAVE BEEN ADMITTED DIRECTLY FROM A FACILITY AS DEFINED IN
  SECTION  1.03  OF  THIS CHAPTER AND WHO HAVE A SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS AS
  DEFINED IN SECTION 1.03 OF  THIS  CHAPTER  AND  ARE  RECEIVING  SERVICES
  RELATED  TO  SUCH  ILLNESS,  or  any  other  place  or facility which is
  required to have an operating certificate pursuant to article sixteen or
  thirty-one of this chapter, and to persons alleged to be in need of care
  and treatment in such facilities or places, and to persons  entitled  to
  such  legal  assistance  as provided by article ten of this chapter. The
  head of such service in each judicial department and such assistants and
  such staff as may be necessary shall be appointed and may be removed  by
  the  presiding justice of the appellate division of the judicial depart-
  ment.  Appointments and transfers to the service shall comply  with  the
  provisions of the civil service law. Standards for qualifications of the

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD00579-02-1

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  personnel  in  the service shall be established by the presiding justice
  of the appellate division of  the  judicial  department.  The  presiding
  justice  of  the  appellate  division  of  the judicial department shall
  promulgate  such  rules or regulations as may be necessary to effectuate
  the purposes of this article.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.