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BILL S3293-2011: Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse
Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse; provides for plan and implementation programs to ensure the most effective use of federal, state, and local resources in the investigation of missing vulnerable adults; disseminates a directory of resources to assist in locating missing vulnerable adults; provides for cooperation with the department of health, office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office for the aging, and other public and private organizations to develop education and prevention programs concerning the safety of vulnerable adults; provides assistance to federal, state and local agencies in the investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults; utilizes available resources to duplicate photographs and posters of vulnerable adults reported as missing by police and disseminates this information throughout the state providing such posters indicate only that the adult is missing with no mention of vulnerability; provides assistance in returning missing vulnerable adults who are located out of state; develops a curriculum for the training of law enforcement personnel investigating cases involving missing vulnerable adults, including recognition and management of vulnerable adults; operates a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to relay information concerning missing vulnerable adults; maintains and makes available to appropriate state and local law enforcement agencies information concerning technological advances that may assist in facilitating the recovery of missing vulnerable adults; takes such other steps as necessary to assist in education, prevention, service provision, and investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults. /
Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO
BILL S3293A-2011: Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse
Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse; provides for plan and implementation programs to ensure the most effective use of federal, state, and local resources in the investigation of missing vulnerable adults; disseminates a directory of resources to assist in locating missing vulnerable adults; provides for cooperation with the department of health, office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office for the aging, and other public and private organizations to develop education and prevention programs concerning the safety of vulnerable adults; provides assistance to federal, state and local agencies in the investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults; utilizes available resources to duplicate photographs and posters of vulnerable adults reported as missing by police and disseminates this information throughout the state providing such posters indicate only that the adult is missing with no mention of vulnerability; provides assistance in returning missing vulnerable adults who are located out of state; develops a curriculum for the training of law enforcement personnel investigating cases involving missing vulnerable adults, including recognition and management of vulnerable adults; operates a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to relay information concerning missing vulnerable adults; maintains and makes available to appropriate state and local law enforcement agencies information concerning technological advances that may assist in facilitating the recovery of missing vulnerable adults; takes such other steps as necessary to assist in education, prevention, service provision, and investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults. /
Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO
BILL S3293B-2011: Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse
Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse; provides for plan and implementation programs to ensure the most effective use of federal, state, and local resources in the investigation of missing vulnerable adults; disseminates a directory of resources to assist in locating missing vulnerable adults; provides for cooperation with the department of health, office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office for the aging, and other public and private organizations to develop education and prevention programs concerning the safety of vulnerable adults; provides assistance to federal, state and local agencies in the investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults; utilizes available resources to duplicate photographs and posters of vulnerable adults reported as missing by police and disseminates this information throughout the state; provides assistance in returning missing vulnerable adults who are located out of state; develops a curriculum for the training of law enforcement personnel investigating cases involving missing vulnerable adults, including recognition and management of vulnerable adults; operates a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to relay information concerning missing vulnerable adults; maintains and makes available to appropriate state and local law enforcement agencies information concerning technological advances that may assist in facilitating the recovery of missing vulnerable adults; takes such other steps as necessary to assist in education, prevention, service provision, and investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults. /
Sponsor: DEFRANCISCO
BILL S3404-2011: Directs commissioner of health and commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to require pediatric care providers to screen for autism; repealer
Directs the commissioner of health and commissioner for people with developmental disabilities to jointly promulgate rules and regulations requiring pediatric health care providers to screen children beginning at the age of 18 months for autism spectrum disorders during each wellness and preventative care examination. /
Sponsor: PARKER
Committee: HEALTH
BILL S4132-2011: Directs certain commissioners to study and report on the costs to the state of early diagnosis and treatment of autism
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health, the commissioner of the office of children and family services and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S4132A-2011: Directs certain commissioners to study and report on the costs to the state of early diagnosis and treatment of autism
Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities, the commissioner of education, the commissioner of health and the commissioner of mental health to study and report the costs to the state for the early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and the long-term treatment for individuals with autism spectrum disorder. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S4467-2011: Relating to state mental health and developmental disabilities programs, offices and issues; repealer
Relates to state mental health and developmental disabilities programs, offices and issues. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
BILL S4768-2011: Establishes a people with developmental disabilities and mental health worker registry
Establishes a mental retardation and developmental disabilities registry and a mental health worker registry; defines terms. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S5249-2011: Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities
Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S5249A-2011: Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities
Requires drug tests for potential employees of the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities. /
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S5589-2011: Directs court to establish a period of commitment for persons found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect
Directs a criminal court to establish a period of commitment for persons found not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect; a person so committed shall not be eligible for release from the custody of the commissioner of mental health or the commissioner of developmental disabilities until completion of the period of commitment. /
Sponsor: GRIFFO
Committee: CODES
BILL S6256A-2011: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2012-2013 state fiscal plan
Relates to the provision of early intervention services; creates developmental disabilities regional offices and state operations offices; replaces the terms "directors of office facilities," directors of schools", and "director of facilities" with "directors of state operations", and replaces the term "developmental disabilities services offices" with "state operations office"; extends certain comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs through July 1, 2016; authorizes Roswell Park Cancer Institute to accept state funding provided that the corporation takes steps to become financially independent by March 31, 2014; establishes an electronic death registration system; establishes the supportive housing development reinvestment program; amends the social services law; relates to the applicability of the assisted living program; relates to including podiatry services and lactation services under the term medical assistance; relates to medical prescriptions for limited English proficient individuals; relates to including certain violations by a pharmacy as professional misconduct; expands prenatal care programs; establishes the primary care service corps practitioner loan repayment program; requires changes in directors of not-for-profit corporations that operate hospitals to be approved by the department; authorizes the commissioner of health to temporarily suspend or limit hospital operating certificates; relates to revoking hospital operating certificates; relates to appointment and duties of temporary operators of a general hospital or diagnostic and treatment centers; authorizes moneys in the medical indemnity fund to be invested in obligations of the United States or the state or obligations where the principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States or the state; relates to moneys distributed as non-Medicaid grants to non-major public academic medical centers; relates to prescriptions of opiod analgesics and brand name drugs covered by medical assistance; relates to notice requirement for preferred drug program, payment to the commissioner of health by third-party payors, audit of payments to the commissioner of health, electronic submission reports by hospitals, and changes the definition of eligible applicant; relates to medical assistance where relative is absent or refuses or fails to provide necessary care; and relates to third-party payor election to make payments; establishes the New York Health Benefit Exchange which will facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health plans in the individual market in NY and will incorporate a small business health options program to assist qualified employers in facilitating the enrollment of their employees in qualified health plans offered in the group market; relates to a cap on administrative costs and expenditures under the medicaid program; extends certain provisions of the preferred drug program through June 15, 2019; prevents scheduled cost of living adjustments for designated human services from taking effect in the 2012-2013 fiscal year; relates to contracts by the office for people with developmental disabilities made under section 1115 of the federal social security act pertaining to applications to participate in the pilot program; permits the commissioners of health, mental health, alcoholism and substance abuse and persons with developmental disabilities the regulatory flexibility to more efficiently and effectively integrate health and behavioral health services; provides for students hospitalized in facilities operated by the office of mental health to receive educational services comparable to that which they would otherwise be entitled to receive in local school districts; relates to the statewide comprehensive services plan for people with developmental disabilities; the local planning process; relates to the closure and reduction in size of certain facilities serving persons with mental illness; amends certain procedures under the sex offender management and treatment act and provides criminal penalties for certain violations of orders of commitment and strict and intensive supervision and treatment; provides for outpatient capacity restoration of felony defendants or restoration at psychiatric hospitals or article 28 hospitals; relates to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs. /
Sponsor: BUDGET
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S6256-2011: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2012-2013 state fiscal plan
Relates to evaluations or services under the early intervention program for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families, state aid reimbursement to municipalities for respite services, and service coordination; repeals subdivision 7 of section 2551 and subdivision 4 of section 2557 of the public health law, relating to administering early intervention services; requires that each municipality be responsible for providing early intervention services; requires health maintenance organizations to include coverage for otherwise covered services that are part of an early intervention program; relates to payment for early intervention services; repeals subsection (e) of section 3235-a of the insurance law relating to claims for early intervention program services; relates to special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions; and repeals subdivision 18 of section 4403 of the education law, relating to the power of the education department to approve the provision of early intervention services (Part A); relates to funding and operations of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Part B); establishes the supportive housing development reinvestment program; relates to applicability of the assisted living program; includes podiatry services and lactation services under the term medical assistance; relates to comprehensive HIV special needs plan, in relation to HEAL-NY, and in relation to the EQUAL program; relates to education, outreach services and facilitated enrollment activities for certain aged, blind and disabled persons; expands prenatal care programs, establishes the primary care service corps practitioner loan repayment program, authorizes moneys in the medical indemnity fund to be invested in obligations of the United States or the state or obligations where the principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States or the state and moneys distributed as non-Medicaid grants to non-major public academic medical centers; relates to the powers of the dormitory authority; directs a workgroup on medically fragile children; relates to notice requirement for preferred drug program, payment to the commissioner of health by third-party payors, audit of payments to the commissioner of health, electronic submission of reports by hospitals, and changing the definition of eligible applicant; relates to medical assistance where relative is absent or refuses or fails to provide necessary care; relates to third-party payor's election to make payments; relates to reserved bed days; relates to the personal care services worker recruitment and retention program; relates to the tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool distributions; relates to certain public school districts and state operated/state supported schools; relates to the licensure of home care services agencies; relates to managed care programs; relates to the distribution of the professional education pools; relates to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority of the state of New York relative to the establishment of subsidiaries for certain purposes, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; relates to costs incurred in excess of revenues by general hospitals in providing services in eligible programs to uninsured patients and patients eligible for Medicaid assistance; relates to the effectiveness of known and projected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures; relates to certain payments with regard to local governments; relates to Medicaid reimbursement; and repeals certain provisions of the public health law relating thereto (Part D); relates to an administrative cap on reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof; relates to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates, in relation to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures; relates to the department assumption of program administration for medical assistance; and provides for the repeal of certain provisions of the social services law upon expiration thereof (Part F); relates to the regulations for computing hospital inpatient rates and to the effectiveness of the preferred drug program (Part G); establishes a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs, in relation to foregoing such adjustment during the 2012-2013 state fiscal year (Part H); relates to the office for people with developmental disabilities and the creation of developmental disabilities regional offices and state operations offices; and provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part J); extends certain provisions relating to comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs (Part K); permits the commissioners of the department of health, the office of mental health, the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and the office for people with developmental disabilities the regulatory flexibility to more efficiently and effectively integrate health and behavioral health services (Part L); authorizes contracts for the provision of special education and related services for certain patients hospitalized in hospitals operated by the office of mental health and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part M); relates to the statewide comprehensive services plan for people with mental disabilities and in relation to the local planning process; and repeals certain provisions of the mental hygiene law relating thereto (Part N); relates to the closure and the reduction in size of certain facilities serving persons with mental illness; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part O); amends procedures under the sex offender management and treatment act (Part P); provides for outpatient capacity restoration of felony defendants at article 28 hospitals (Part Q); relates to the effectiveness of provisions related to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs (Part R); relates to the excess medical malpractice liability coverage pool (Part S); and relates to the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage; and repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part T). /
Sponsor: BUDGET BILL
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S6256D-2011: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2012-2013 state fiscal plan
Relates to evaluations or services under the early intervention program for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families, state aid reimbursement to municipalities for respite services, and service coordination; repeals subdivision 7 of section 2551 and subdivision 4 of section 2557 of the public health law, relating to administering early intervention services; requires that each municipality be responsible for providing early intervention services; requires health maintenance organizations to include coverage for otherwise covered services that are part of an early intervention program; relates to payment for early intervention services; repeals subsection (e) of section 3235-a of the insurance law relating to claims for early intervention program services; relates to special education services and programs for preschool children with handicapping conditions; and repeals subdivision 18 of section 4403 of the education law, relating to the power of the education department to approve the provision of early intervention services (Part A); relates to funding and operations of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Part B); establishes the supportive housing development reinvestment program; relates to applicability of the assisted living program; includes podiatry services and lactation services under the term medical assistance; relates to comprehensive HIV special needs plan, in relation to HEAL-NY, and in relation to the EQUAL program; relates to education, outreach services and facilitated enrollment activities for certain aged, blind and disabled persons; expands prenatal care programs, establishes the primary care service corps practitioner loan repayment program, authorizes moneys in the medical indemnity fund to be invested in obligations of the United States or the state or obligations where the principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States or the state and moneys distributed as non-Medicaid grants to non-major public academic medical centers; relates to the powers of the dormitory authority; directs a workgroup on medically fragile children; relates to notice requirement for preferred drug program, payment to the commissioner of health by third-party payors, audit of payments to the commissioner of health, electronic submission of reports by hospitals, and changing the definition of eligible applicant; relates to medical assistance where relative is absent or refuses or fails to provide necessary care; relates to third-party payor's election to make payments; relates to reserved bed days; relates to the personal care services worker recruitment and retention program; relates to the tobacco control and insurance initiatives pool distributions; relates to certain public school districts and state operated/state supported schools; relates to the licensure of home care services agencies; relates to managed care programs; relates to the distribution of the professional education pools; relates to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority of the state of New York relative to the establishment of subsidiaries for certain purposes, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; relates to costs incurred in excess of revenues by general hospitals in providing services in eligible programs to uninsured patients and patients eligible for Medicaid assistance; relates to the effectiveness of known and projected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures; relates to certain payments with regard to local governments; relates to Medicaid reimbursement; and repeals certain provisions of the public health law relating thereto (Part D); relates to an administrative cap on reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof; relates to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates, in relation to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures; relates to the department assumption of program administration for medical assistance; and provide for the repeal of certain provisions of the social services law upon expiration thereof (Part F); relates to the regulations for computing hospital inpatient rates and to the effectiveness of the preferred drug program (Part G); establishes a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs, in relation to foregoing such adjustment during the 2012-2013 state fiscal year (Part H); relates to the office for people with developmental disabilities and the creation of developmental disabilities regional offices and state operations offices; and provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part J); extends certain provisions relating to comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs (Part K); permits the commissioners of the department of health, the office of mental health, the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and the office for people with developmental disabilities the regulatory flexibility to more efficiently and effectively integrate health and behavioral health services (Part L); authorizes contracts for the provision of special education and related services for certain patients hospitalized in hospitals operated by the office of mental health and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part M); relates to the statewide comprehensive services plan for people with mental disabilities and in relation to the local planning process; and repeals certain provisions of the mental hygiene law relating thereto (Part N); relates to the closure and the reduction in size of certain facilities serving persons with mental illness; and provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part O); amends procedures under the sex offender management and treatment act (Part P); provides for outpatient capacity restoration of felony defendants at article 28 hospitals (Part Q); relates to the effectiveness of provisions related to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs (Part R); relates to the excess medical malpractice liability coverage pool (Part S); and relates to the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage; and repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part T). /
Sponsor: BUDGET
BILL S6256C-2011: Enacts into law major components law relating to health and mental hygiene
Enacts into law major components of law relating to health and mental hygiene; repeals subdivision 4 of section 2557 of the public health law, relating to administering early intervention services; amends the public health law, in relation to requiring that each municipality be responsible for providing early intervention services; amends the public health law, in relation to removing the authorization of the commissioner of health to collect data from counties on early intervention programs for the purpose of improving efficiency, cost effectiveness and quality; amends the insurance law, in relation to the right of subrogation (Part A); amends the social services law, in relation to supportive housing, the assisted living program, medical assistance for needy persons, payments to insurance, eligibility for medical assistance, reimbursement to public school districts and state operated schools operating pursuant to article eighty-five, eighty-seven or eighty-eight of the education law, reimbursement to counties for preschool children with handicapping conditions, consumer directed personal assistance program, managed care programs; amends the public health law, in relation to payments to certified home health agencies, HIV special needs plan certification, temporary operators, the New York state medical indemnity fund, approval of construction of hospitals, rates of payment to residential facilities, patient services payments, assessments on covered lives, hospital assessments, hospital reimbursements, licensure of home care services agencies, managed long term care plans, the New York state workgroup on Medicaid reimbursement for medically fragile children, medical assistance recoupments and reductions, HEAL NY capital grant program, health workforce retraining program, establishment or incorporation of hospitals; amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to compliance with operational standards by hospitals, compliance with operational standards by certain providers; amends chapter 584 of the laws of 2011, amending the public authorities law, relating to the powers and duties of the dormitory authority of the state of New York relative to the establishment of subsidiaries for certain purposes, in relation to the effectiveness thereof; amends chapter 119 of the laws of 1997, relating to authorizing the department of health to establish certain payments to general hospitals, in relation to costs incurred in excess of revenues by general hospitals for providing services in eligible programs; amends Part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws relating to known and projected department of health state funds Medicaid expenditures, in relation to reductions to local social services district medical assistance administration; amends part H of chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws, relating to types of appropriations exempt from certain reductions, in relation to payments made to the early intervention program; repeals subdivision 9 of section 2803 of the public health law, relating to commissioner audits of general hospitals; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof (Part D); amends chapter 58 of the laws of 2005 authorizing reimbursements for expenditures made by or on behalf of social services districts for medical assistance for needy persons and the administration thereof, in relation to an administrative cap on such program; amends chapter 59 of the laws of 2011, amending the public health law and other laws relating to general hospital reimbursement for annual rates, in relation to the cap on local Medicaid expenditures; amends the social services law, in relation to the department assumption of program administration for medical assistance (Part F); amends the public health law, in relation to regulations for computing hospital inpatient rates; amends chapter 58 of the laws of 2005 relating to the preferred drug program, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part G); amends chapter 57 of the laws of 2006, relating to establishing a cost of living adjustment for designated human services programs, in relation to foregoing such adjustment during the 2012-2013 state fiscal year; amends the not-for-profit corporation law, in relation to compensation of executives; provides for the repeal of certain provisions upon the expiration thereof (Part H); amends chapter 723 of the laws of 1989 amending the mental hygiene law and other laws relating to comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part K); amends the state administrative procedure act, in relation to removing the establishment of operating, reporting and construction requirements for certain agencies and offices (Part L); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to permitting the office of mental health and the state education department to enter into an agreement for purposes of providing education programming for patients residing in hospitals operated by the office of mental health who are between the ages of five and twenty-one; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof (Part M); amends the mental hygiene law and the public health law, in relation to the statewide comprehensive services plan for people with mental disabilities and in relation to the local planning process; and to repeal certain provisions of the mental hygiene law relating thereto (Part N); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to service reductions relating to operations of the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities (Part O-1); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to amending procedures under the sex offender management and treatment act; amends the penal law, in relation to providing criminal penalties for certain violations of orders of commitment and strict and intensive supervision and treatment (Part P); amends chapter 111 of the laws of 2010 relating to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs, in relation to the effectiveness thereof (Part R); relates to the excess medical malpractice liability coverage pool (Part S); requires a report and recommendations regarding funding pursuant to the options for people through services initiative (Part T); amends the elder law, in relation to the program for elderly pharmaceutical insurance coverage; repeals certain provisions of such law relating thereto (Part U); amends the social services law, in relation to the definition of "estate" for purposes of recovery of medical assistance benefits paid to a deceased recipient; amends the public health law, in relation to telemedicine credentialing, establishing a rural home telehealth delivery demonstration study program, and managed long term care plans; amends the public authorities law, in relation to the Clifton-Fine Health Care Corporation; amends the public health law, in relation to the state aid and public health emergencies; amends the insurance law, in relation to the New York state Health care quality and cost containment commission in relation to statutory association membership, and in relation to certain exemptions; amends the public health law, in relation to the prescription pain medication awareness program, the physician loan repayment program; amends chapter 58 of the laws of 2010, amending chapter 474 of the laws of 1996, amending the education law and other laws relating to rates for residential healthcare facilities and other laws relating to medicaid payments, in relation to seeking federal approvals to establish health payment methodologies with accountable care organization; amends the public health law, in relation to limited or administrative review, establishment of a triage system of care and the general hospital indigent care pool; repeals title 5 of article 10-C of the public authorities law relating to the Clifton-Fine Health Care Corporation; amends chapter 266 of the laws of 1986, amending the civil practice law and rules and other laws relating to malpractice and professional medical conduct, in relation to surplus requirements and to repeal paragraph (e) of subdivision 8 of section 2511 of the public health law, relating to the adjustment of subsidy payments and to repeal section 1325 of the insurance law, relating to exemptions (Part V); amends the mental hygiene law, in relation to transferring the alcohol and drug rehabilitation program from the department of motor vehicles to the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services. /
Sponsor: BUDGET
Committee: FINANCE
BILL S6256B-2011: Enacts into law major components of legislation necessary to implement the health and mental hygiene budget for the 2012-2013 state fiscal plan
Relates to the provision of early intervention services; creates developmental disabilities regional offices and state operations offices; replaces the terms "directors of office facilities," directors of schools", and "director of facilities" with "directors of state operations", and replaces the term "developmental disabilities services offices" with "state operations office"; extends certain comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs through July 1, 2016; authorizes Roswell Park Cancer Institute to accept state funding provided that the corporation takes steps to become financially independent by March 31, 2014; establishes an electronic death registration system; establishes the supportive housing development reinvestment program; amends the social services law; relates to the applicability of the assisted living program; relates to including podiatry services and lactation services under the term medical assistance; relates to medical prescriptions for limited English proficient individuals; relates to including certain violations by a pharmacy as professional misconduct; expands prenatal care programs; establishes the primary care service corps practitioner loan repayment program; requires changes in directors of not-for-profit corporations that operate hospitals to be approved by the department; authorizes the commissioner of health to temporarily suspend or limit hospital operating certificates; relates to revoking hospital operating certificates; relates to appointment and duties of temporary operators of a general hospital or diagnostic and treatment centers; authorizes moneys in the medical indemnity fund to be invested in obligations of the United States or the state or obligations where the principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States or the state; relates to moneys distributed as non-Medicaid grants to non-major public academic medical centers; relates to prescriptions of opiod analgesics and brand name drugs covered by medical assistance; relates to notice requirement for preferred drug program, payment to the commissioner of health by third-party payors, audit of payments to the commissioner of health, electronic submission reports by hospitals, and changes the definition of eligible applicant; relates to medical assistance where relative is absent or refuses or fails to provide necessary care; and relates to third-party payor election to make payments; establishes the New York Health Benefit Exchange which will facilitate the purchase and sale of qualified health plans in the individual market in NY and will incorporate a small business health options program to assist qualified employers in facilitating the enrollment of their employees in qualified health plans offered in the group market; relates to a cap on administrative costs and expenditures under the medicaid program; extends certain provisions of the preferred drug program through June 15, 2019; prevents scheduled cost of living adjustments for designated human services from taking effect in the 2012-2013 fiscal year; relates to contracts by the office for people with developmental disabilities made under section 1115 of the federal social security act pertaining to applications to participate in the pilot program; permits the commissioners of health, mental health, alcoholism and substance abuse and persons with developmental disabilities the regulatory flexibility to more efficiently and effectively integrate health and behavioral health services; provides for students hospitalized in facilities operated by the office of mental health to receive educational services comparable to that which they would otherwise be entitled to receive in local school districts; relates to the statewide comprehensive services plan for people with developmental disabilities; the local planning process; relates to the closure and reduction in size of certain facilities serving persons with mental illness; amends certain procedures under the sex offender management and treatment act and provides criminal penalties for certain violations of orders of commitment and strict and intensive supervision and treatment; provides for outpatient capacity restoration of felony defendants or restoration at psychiatric hospitals or article 28 hospitals; relates to the recovery of exempt income by the office of mental health for community residences and family-based treatment programs. /
Sponsor: BUDGET
Committee: FINANCE
BILL A676B-2011: Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse
Creates the missing vulnerable adults clearinghouse; provides for plan and implementation programs to ensure the most effective use of federal, state, and local resources in the investigation of missing vulnerable adults; disseminates a directory of resources to assist in locating missing vulnerable adults; provides for cooperation with the department of health, office of mental health, office for people with developmental disabilities, office for the aging, and other public and private organizations to develop education and prevention programs concerning the safety of vulnerable adults; provides assistance to federal, state and local agencies in the investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults; utilizes available resources to duplicate photographs and posters of vulnerable adults reported as missing by police and disseminates this information throughout the state; provides assistance in returning missing vulnerable adults who are located out of state; develops a curriculum for the training of law enforcement personnel investigating cases involving missing vulnerable adults, including recognition and management of vulnerable adults; operates a toll-free twenty-four hour hotline for the public to use to relay information concerning missing vulnerable adults; maintains and makes available to appropriate state and local law enforcement agencies information concerning technological advances that may assist in facilitating the recovery of missing vulnerable adults; takes such other steps as necessary to assist in education, prevention, service provision, and investigation of cases involving missing vulnerable adults. /
Sponsor: Magnarelli (MS)
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