Senate Bill S6456

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for comprehensive care centers for autism spectrum disorders

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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-S6456 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1350
Current Committee:
Senate Health
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-S6456 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2023-S6456 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6456 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6456
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed 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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