Actions
- May 1, 2012: reported referred to ways and means
- Jan 9, 2012: committed to mental health
- Jan 4, 2012: ordered to third reading cal.216
- 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 20, 2011: ordered to third reading rules cal.553
- Jun 20, 2011: rules report cal.553
- Jun 20, 2011: reported
- Jun 20, 2011: reported referred to rules
- Jun 13, 2011: print number 6665a
- Jun 13, 2011: amend and recommit to ways and means
- Jun 7, 2011: reported referred to ways and means
- Mar 24, 2011: referred to mental health
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ABINANTI, JAFFEE, LIFTON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- reported and referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to increasing the
frequency of visitation and inspection of facilities per year
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 16.11 of the mental hygiene law,
as amended by chapter 214 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as
follows:
(a) The commissioner shall provide for the periodic visitation and
inspection of each facility. Inspections shall be made as frequently as
the commissioner may deem necessary but in any event such inspections
shall be made on at least [two] THREE occasions during each calendar
year[, at least one of] which shall be without prior notice, provided,
however, that where, in the discretion of the commissioner, an operating
certificate has been issued to a program with a history of compliance
and a record of providing a high quality of care, the periodic
inspection and visitation required by this subdivision shall be made at
least [once] TWICE during each calendar year provided such [visit]
VISITS shall be without prior notice, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE
COMMISSIONER PROVIDE NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE APPLICABLE BOARD OF VISI-
TORS. ANY MEMBER OR MEMBERS OF A BOARD OF VISITORS, APPOINTED PURSUANT
TO SECTION 13.33 OF THIS TITLE, AND ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL OR INDIVIDUALS
THE COMMISSIONER AT HIS OR HER DISCRETION APPROVES, MAY ACCOMPANY
INSPECTORS DURING THE STATE'S PERIODIC VISITATIONS AND INSPECTIONS
CONDUCTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AS INDEPENDENT MONITORS.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08759-02-1
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