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NY A04482
Bill
Status
12/16/2019
Primary Sponsor
Michael Cusick
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AI Summary
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Expands the mental hygiene legal service to include patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities licensed under article 28 of the public health law
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Limits eligibility to those who were admitted directly from a mental hygiene facility as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law
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Requires patients to have a serious mental illness as defined in section 1.03 and be receiving services related to that illness
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Maintains existing legal assistance provided to patients in other facilities and persons entitled to such assistance under article 10
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Takes effect immediately upon enactment
Legislative Description
Provides a mental hygiene legal service to patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities who have been admitted directly from a facility and who have a serious mental illness and are receiving services related to such illness.
Last Action
signed chap.658
12/16/2019