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NY A00613

Bill

Status

Passed

3/3/2023

Primary Sponsor

Aileen Gunther

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Origin

Assembly

2023-2024 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Repeals Section 7.49 of the mental hygiene law that was added in 2022 relating to monthly status reports of community investments and inpatient census impact.

  • Requires the Office of Mental Health commissioner to provide monthly status reports to the Senate Finance Committee chair and Assembly Ways and Means Committee chair.

  • Mandates posting of monthly reports on the Office of Mental Health's publicly accessible website.

  • Reports must include state psychiatric facility census, budgeted capacity exceedances, out-of-catchment placements, admissions/discharges, 30-day Medicaid readmission rates, emergency room psychiatric visits, community service investments, length of stay data, and explanations of material census reductions.

  • Section 2 takes effect 180 days after the bill becomes law; all other provisions take effect on the same date as the 2022 law (S. 4253/A. 6506).

Legislative Description

Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census to the chair of the senate finance committee and the chair of the assembly ways and means committee and to post such report on the office's website.

Last Action

signed chap.9

3/3/2023

Committee Referrals

Rules1/18/2023
Rules1/18/2023
Ways and Means1/18/2023
Mental Health1/10/2023

Full Bill Text

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