S6805-2011 Actions

• Jun 6, 2012: REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
• Mar 23, 2012: REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES

S6805-2011 Meetings

S6805-2011 Votes

S6805-2011 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S6805

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to patients interred at
state mental health hospital cemeteries

PURPOSE:
To mark headstones or otherwise memorialize patients interred at state
mental health hospital cemeteries.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section, 33.27-a&b.

�33.27-a:
-Requires that the names, dates of birth and dates of death of
patients buried in state mental health hospital cemeteries be made
available to mark headstones or otherwise memorialize patients
interred at these cemeteries.

-This information shall be made available fifty years after the death
of a patient.

�33.27-b:
Adds a definition for "state mental health hospitals," to mean any
state funded institution to care for and help treat the mentally ill
or developmentally disabled in New York State, including former
asylums for the insane.

JUSTIFICATION:
Many state-funded institutions to care for and help treat the mentally
ill or developmentally disabled in New York State have cemeteries
with formerly interred patients that have unmarked graves. This bill
will allow for information to be released to mark the graves of
former patients of these state-funded institutions.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

S6805-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         6805
 I N  SENATE
 March 23, 2012
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop
 mental Disabilities
 

AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to patients interred
 at state mental health hospital cemeteries
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
 33.27 to read as follows:

 

S 33.27 RELEASE OF CERTAIN PATIENTS' NAMES AND DATES OF BIRTH AND DEATH.
 (A) TO MARK HEADSTONES OR OTHERWISE MEMORIALIZE PATIENTS  INTERRED  AT
 STATE  MENTAL  HEALTH  HOSPITAL  CEMETERIES,  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF MENTAL
 HYGIENE SHALL MAKE AVAILABLE THE NAME, DATE OF BIRTH AND DATE  OF  DEATH
 OF  PATIENTS  BURIED  IN  STATE  MENTAL HEALTH HOSPITAL CEMETERIES FIFTY
 YEARS AFTER THE DEATH OF A PATIENT.
 (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "STATE  MENTAL  HEALTH
 HOSPITALS"  SHALL MEAN ANY STATE-FUNDED INSTITUTION TO CARE FOR AND HELP
 TREAT THE MENTALLY ILL OR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED IN  NEW  YORK  STATE.
 SUCH  TERM  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO FORMER ASYLUMS FOR THE
 INSANE, SUCH AS THE NEW YORK STATE LUNATIC ASYLUM, UTICA STATE HOSPITAL,
 WILLARD ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, WILLARD STATE HOSPITAL,  NEW  YORK  STATE
 INEBRIATE  ASYLUM,  BINGHAMTON ASYLUM FOR THE CHRONIC INSANE, BINGHAMTON
 STATE HOSPITAL, BUFFALO STATE ASYLUM FOR  THE  INSANE,  NEW  YORK  STATE
 ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, BUFFALO STATE HOSPITAL, NEW YORK STATE ASYLUM FOR
 IDIOTS AND THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS IN ALBANY.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen
 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on  or
 before such date.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13640-01-1

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