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.

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A1481A-2011 Actions

• Jun 12, 2012: held for consideration in mental health
• May 10, 2012: print number 1481a
• May 10, 2012: amend and recommit to mental health
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to mental health
• Jan 10, 2011: referred to mental health

A1481A-2011 Text

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

                                   1481--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 10, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
    Committee on Mental Health -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Mental
    Health  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2 -- 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:


    Section  1.  Paragraph  2  of  subdivision (g) of section 29.15 of the
  mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 433 of the laws  of  1976,  is
  amended to read as follows:

    2.  a  specific  recommendation  of the type of residence in which the
  patient is to live and a  listing  of  the  services  available  to  the
  patient  in such residence MADE BY THE CERTIFIED PSYCHOLOGIST, CERTIFIED
  NURSE PRACTITIONER OR OTHER INDIVIDUAL AUTHORIZED TO MAKE SUCH RECOMMEN-
  DATION.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
  it shall have become a law.





   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD00960-02-2