NY A08648

Extends New York's Family Health Care Decisions Act to cover patients with intellectual or developmental disabilities, allowing surrogate decision-making for these individuals under the same framework used for other patients

Removes prior provisions that excluded people with intellectual or developmental disabilities from the standard health care decision-making process and required separate procedures under Article 17-A of the Surrogate's Court Procedure Act

Requires at least 48 hours notice to specified parties before withdrawing life-sustaining treatment for a person with intellectual or developmental disability, including notification to the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities or the facility operator and Mental Hygiene Legal Services

Adds the Willowbrook Consumer Advisory Board to the surrogate priority list for former Willowbrook State School residents who have no guardian and no available family members to serve as surrogate

Prohibits health care decisions from being influenced by presumptions that people with intellectual or developmental disabilities are not entitled to the same rights, medical care, and dignity as others