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BILL S3627-2011: Requires every firefighter, police officer, emergency medical technician and certified first responder to complete training on developmental disabilities
Requires every firefighter, police officer, emergency medical technician and certified first responder to complete training on intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: ADAMS
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL A870-2011: Requires mental hygiene entities review fiscal management practices of service provider applicants
Requires that the Office of Mental Health and the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities give consideration to the fiscal management practices of an applicant to operate a mental hygiene facility or program as part of the review of such individual's character and competence.
Sponsor: Destito
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL A6840-2011: 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: Rodriguez
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL A4731-2011: Prohibits the co-mingling of adolescent and adult patients in office of mental health run residential facilities
Prohibits the co-mingling of adolescent and adult patients in office of mental health run residential facilities.
Sponsor: Titone
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL A6815-2011: Renames the advisory council on underage alcohol consumption
Renames the advisory council on underage alcohol consumption and authorizes the council to address issues of substance abuse among youth.
Sponsor: Cymbrowitz
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL A2059-2011: Adds representatives of a dual diagnosis program to the advisory council on alcoholism and substance abuse services
Adds representatives of a dual diagnosis program to the advisory council on alcoholism and substance abuse services.
Sponsor: DenDekker
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S6107-2011: Provides that the provisions creating the abuse prevention notification system shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day
Provides that the provisions creating the abuse prevention notification system shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day and providing that the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities shall take steps to ensure creation of such system and promulgation of necessary rules and regulations.
Sponsor: MCDONALD
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S1199-2011: Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement
Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement including supervision, electronic monitoring, appropriate clothing, transportation, medication and a service plan.
Sponsor: GRIFFO
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3018-2011: Creates mental health incident review panels
Creates mental health incident review panels.
Sponsor: HUNTLEY
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3427-2011: Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system
Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental health with a list of each person referred to, admitted to, applying for, withdrawing an application for and denied admission to housing provided by such provider; requires the community-based agency performing assessments of persons with a documented mental illness to provide the office with the names of such who have been assessed and who meet the eligibility criteria for the array of funded and/or licensed housing programs; requires such office to publish such waiting lists on a monthly basis.
Sponsor: PARKER
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3431-2011: Amends the definition of "developmental disability"
Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.
Sponsor: PARKER
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3434-2011: Establishes the child psychiatry access project within the office of mental health; establishes a gift for such purpose on personal income tax forms
Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations they treat in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.
Sponsor: PARKER
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S4885-2011: Requires office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to establish a curriculum for course of instruction on adolescent problem gambling in grades 4 through 12
Requires the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services, in consultation with the education department, to establish a course of instruction on adolescent problem gambling which may be provided in grades 4 through 12; requires the commissioner to provide such curriculum be posted on the department of education internet website.
Sponsor: KLEIN
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3171A-2011: Authorizes the use of a trend factor in determining payments to certain care facilities
Authorizes the use of a trend factor in determining payments to certain care facilities.
Sponsor: HUNTLEY
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S196-2011: Makes provisions regarding safety of certain employees of the office of mental health, including certain staffing ratios and filling of staff vacancies
Makes provisions regarding safety of certain employees of the office of mental health: provides that the commissioner of the office of mental health shall direct that in outpatient programs no employee shall be required to enter the residence of a person with a serious mental illness unless said employee is accompanied by at least one other employee of the program or other appropriate person; provides that the commissioner shall also direct that all such employees shall, when they are required to enter the residence of a recipient of services, be supplied with a wireless telephone or comparable device for the purposes of emergency communications; provides that the commissioner shall direct that employees serving as intensive case managers receive annual training in safety measures and violence prevention and that the commissioner shall insure the availability of such training; provides that funds appropriated for the operation of outpatient programs shall be expended to insure that there shall be at least one intensive case manager for each twelve persons receiving such services, and that there shall be no more than twelve persons receiving services from any one assertive case management team; directs the division of the budget to cause positions to be promptly filled in order to maintain said ratios.
Sponsor: MAZIARZ
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S545-2011: Provides guidelines and aids in locating sites for community residential facilities
Provides guidelines and aides in locating sites for community residential facilities; requires OPDD to conduct study on location of proposed sites.
Sponsor: KLEIN
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S2305-2011: Limits the proximity of community residential facilities for the disabled
Limits the proximity of newly located community residential facilities for the disabled to within a one mile radius of an existing facility.
Sponsor: KRUGER
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S2135A-2011: Establishes the task force on adults with autism within the office of mental retardation and developmental disabilities
Establishes the task force on adults with autism within the office for people with developmental disabilities to study, evaluate and develop recommendations relating to specific actionable measures to support and meet the needs of adults with autism.
Sponsor: BONACIC
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3016-2011: Relates to the review of criminal history information of certain persons rendering community based services to individuals with mental illness or mental retardation
Relates to the review of criminal history information of certain persons rendering community based services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: HUNTLEY
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
BILL S3016A-2011: Relates to the review of criminal history information of certain persons rendering community based services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities
Relates to the review of criminal history information of certain persons rendering community based services to individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities.
Sponsor: HUNTLEY
Committee: MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES