Assembly Bill A4886A

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit mentally ill patients

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A4886 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3280
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง9.01, 9.13 & 9.15, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11650
2011-2012: A1603, S4525
2015-2016: A8440
2017-2018: A3895
2019-2020: A2820

2013-A4886 - Summary

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on a voluntary basis.

2013-A4886 - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4886

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, HOOPER -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A.  GIBSON -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
  tee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to authorizing nurse
  practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on
  a voluntary or involuntary basis

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

  Section 1. Section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
a new subdivision 9-a to read as follows:
  9-A. "NURSE PRACTITIONER" MEANS A CERTIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER  ACTING
WITHIN  HIS  OR  HER  LAWFUL  SCOPE  OF  PRACTICE  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW.
  S 2. The section heading, the opening paragraph of subdivision (a) and
subdivision (b) of section 9.05 of the mental hygiene law, such  section
as renumbered by chapter 978 of the laws of 1977, are amended to read as
follows:
  Examining physicians and NURSE PRACTITIONERS AND medical certificates.
  A  person  is  disqualified  from  acting as an examining physician OR
NURSE PRACTITIONER in the following cases:
  (b) A certificate, as required by this article,  must  show  that  the
person  is  mentally  ill  and  shall  be based on an examination of the
person alleged to be mentally ill made within ten days prior to the date
of admission. The date of the certificate shall  be  the  date  of  such
examination.  All certificates shall contain the facts and circumstances
upon which the judgment of the  physicians  OR  NURSE  PRACTITIONERS  is
based  and  shall show that the condition of the person examined is such
that he OR SHE needs involuntary care and treatment in  a  hospital  and
such other information as the commissioner may by regulation require.
  S 3.  Subdivisions (a), (d), (e) and (i) of section 9.27 of the mental
hygiene  law,  subdivision  (i) as amended by chapter 847 of the laws of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07409-01-3
              

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2013-A4886A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3280
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง9.01, 9.13 & 9.15, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11650
2011-2012: A1603, S4525
2015-2016: A8440
2017-2018: A3895
2019-2020: A2820

2013-A4886A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes nurse practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on a voluntary basis.

2013-A4886A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                 4886--A

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, GOTTFRIED, COLTON, HOOPER -- Multi-Spon-
  sored by -- M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Higher Education -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
  reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to authorizing nurse
  practitioners to admit a patient to an inpatient mental health unit on
  a voluntary basis

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

  Section 1. Section 9.01 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
a new ninth undesignated paragraph to read as follows:
  "QUALIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL  LICENSED  PURSUANT
TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND CERTIFIED AS
A  NURSE  PRACTITIONER PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED TWO OF THE
EDUCATION LAW WITH A CERTIFICATE IN THE SPECIALTY OF PSYCHIATRY.
  S 2. Subdivision (a) of section 9.13 of the  mental  hygiene  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  465  of  the  laws  of 1992, is amended to read as
follows:
  (a) The director of any hospital may receive as  a  voluntary  patient
any suitable person in need of care and treatment, who voluntarily makes
written  application  therefor. TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH WRITTEN APPLICA-
TION REQUIRES AN EXAMINATION OF THE PATIENT AND  CONFIRMATION  THAT  THE
PATIENT  HAS  A  MENTAL ILLNESS FOR WHICH CARE AND TREATMENT IN A MENTAL
HOSPITAL IS APPROPRIATE, SUCH EVALUATION AND CONFIRMATION SHALL BE  MADE
BY  EITHER  A PHYSICIAN OR A QUALIFIED NURSE PRACTITIONER. If the person
is under sixteen years of age, the person may be received as a voluntary
patient only on the application of the parent, legal guardian, or  next-
of-kin  of  such  person, or, subject to the terms of any court order or
any instrument executed pursuant to section three hundred  eighty-four-a
of  the  social  services  law, a social services official or authorized
agency with care and custody of  such  person  pursuant  to  the  social

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07409-03-3
              

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