Assembly Bill A9729

Signed By Governor
2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to transitional care

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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-A9729 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7374
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง13.37-a & 13.38, Ment Hyg L

2013-A9729 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to transitional care.

2013-A9729 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  9729

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 20, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. JAFFEE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Mental Health

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to transitional care

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

  Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 13.37-a of  the  mental  hygiene
law,  as added by chapter 405 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as
follows:
  (a) For purposes of this section, "transitional care" shall mean  care
and maintenance of persons:
  1. who were placed in foster care by a social services district pursu-
ant  to article six of the social services law and who have become twen-
ty-one years of age, or who were placed  in  a  residential  educational
placement  by  a  school district pursuant to article eighty-nine of the
education law and who  are  no  longer  eligible  for  free  educational
services  because  they  have  completed  the  school year in which they
became twenty-one;
  2. who were disabled and in need of residential care prior to becoming
age twenty-one or  prior  to  becoming  ineligible  for  free  education
services  and  who have since remained continuously disabled and contin-
uously in need of residential care;
  3. [who became twenty-one or became ineligible  for  free  educational
services prior to July first, nineteen hundred ninety-six;
  4.]with  respect  to  whom the office has approved a plan of continued
out of home care for the person but has not yet identified  a  currently
available appropriate placement; AND
  [5.]  4.  whose  residential needs can be met by the facility in which
the persons resided prior to becoming age twenty-one or becoming  ineli-
gible for free educational services[; and].
  [6. who on July first, nineteen hundred ninety-eight are in receipt of
transitional  care, or who have continuously remained in the foster care
or residential education placement where they had received  transitional
care.]
  S  2.  Subdivision  (a) of section 13.38 of the mental hygiene law, as
amended by chapter 405 of the laws  of  1998,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:

              

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