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NY A07724
Bill
Status
5/20/2021
Primary Sponsor
Demond Meeks
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AI Summary
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Expands mental hygiene legal service to include patients or residents of residential health care facilities licensed under public health law article 28 who were directly admitted from a mental health facility and have a serious mental illness.
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Removes the requirement that patients receiving mental hygiene legal service must be "receiving services related to such illness," broadening eligibility for legal assistance.
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Adds new function for mental hygiene legal service to provide legal services, assistance, and advocacy to qualifying residents of residential health care facilities.
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Requires directors of mental health facilities to notify the mental hygiene legal service when patients with serious mental illness are being discharged to residential health care facilities and to provide the written service plan.
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Prohibits residential health care facilities from restricting access by the mental hygiene legal service to qualifying patients or their records, and provides liability protection for facilities that disclose records pursuant to this authorization.
Legislative Description
Provides a mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of residential health care facilities; requires the director of any department facility or the chief administrator of certain facilities to provide the mental hygiene legal service with the written service plan for patients who have a serious mental illness and who are about to be discharged.
Last Action
referred to ways and means
1/5/2022