Assembly Bill A1350

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for comprehensive care centers for autism spectrum disorders

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A1350 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6456
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2801, add §2831, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A8906
2011-2012: A413
2013-2014: A1400
2015-2016: A1056
2017-2018: A879
2019-2020: A3599
2021-2022: A103

2023-A1350 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Develops comprehensive assessment centers for autism spectrum disorders; provides grants for their development and lays out reporting and research requirements.

2023-A1350 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1350
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, COLTON, SANTABARBARA, WALSH -- read once
   and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the development of
   comprehensive autism assessment centers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 2801 of the public health law,  as
 amended  by  section  1  of part Z of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. "Hospital" means a facility or institution engaged  principally  in
 providing services by or under the supervision of a physician or, in the
 case  of  a dental clinic or dental dispensary, of a dentist, or, in the
 case of a midwifery birth center, of  a  midwife,  for  the  prevention,
 diagnosis  or  treatment  of  human  disease, pain, injury, deformity or
 physical condition, including, but not limited to, a  general  hospital,
 public  health center, diagnostic center, treatment center, dental clin-
 ic, dental dispensary, rehabilitation center other than a facility  used
 solely  for vocational rehabilitation, nursing home, tuberculosis hospi-
 tal, chronic  disease  hospital,  maternity  hospital,  midwifery  birth
 center,  lying-in-asylum,  out-patient  department,  out-patient  lodge,
 dispensary and a laboratory or central service facility serving  one  or
 more  such  institutions,  A COMPREHENSIVE AUTISM ASSESSMENT CENTER, but
 the term hospital shall not include an institution, sanitarium or  other
 facility  engaged  principally in providing services for the prevention,
 diagnosis or treatment of mental disability and which is subject to  the
 powers  of  visitation, examination, inspection and investigation of the
 department of mental hygiene except for those distinct parts of  such  a
 facility  which provide hospital service. The provisions of this article
 shall not apply to a facility  or  institution  engaged  principally  in
 providing  services by or under the supervision of the bona fide members
 and adherents of a recognized  religious  organization  whose  teachings
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04175-01-3
              

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