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                                  1425--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JENNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with
   Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  services  for
   individuals with traumatic brain injuries
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2740 of the public health law, as added by  chapter
 196 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2740. Traumatic brain injury program.  The department shall have the
 central  responsibility for administering the provisions of this article
 and otherwise coordinating the state's policies with respect to traumat-
 ic brain injury, in consultation with the office [of mental  retardation
 and]  FOR  PEOPLE  WITH developmental disabilities, the office of mental
 health, the department  of  education,  the  office  of  alcoholism  and
 substance  abuse services, the department of social services, the office
 of the advocate for the disabled and the commission on quality  of  care
 for the mentally disabled.
   §  2.  Subdivisions 9 and 10 of section 2742 of the public health law,
 as added by chapter 196 of the laws of  1994,  are  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 11 is added to read as follows:
   9.  to develop training programs for persons providing discharge plans
 and case management; [and]
   10. to develop standards for licensing or certifying  residential  and
 non-residential  services for persons with traumatic brain injury to the
 extent that such services are not otherwise subject to the  jurisdiction
 of another state agency[.]; AND
   11.  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH DEVELOPMENTAL
 DISABILITIES, ENSURE TO THE EXTENT PRACTICABLE THAT ADEQUATE AND  APPRO-
 PRIATE  SERVICES  ARE  AVAILABLE TO INDIVIDUALS REGARDLESS OF THE AGE OF
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 THE INDIVIDUAL AT THE TIME THE TRAUMATIC  BRAIN  INJURY  WAS  SUSTAINED,
 PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE PROVISION OF SUCH SERVICES DOES NOT DISPLACE
 OR  DENY  AN  INDIVIDUAL  WITH  A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AS DEFINED BY
 SUBDIVISION  TWENTY-TWO  OF  SECTION 1.03 OF THE MENTAL HYGIENE LAW FROM
 RECEIVING SERVICES FROM THE OFFICE FOR PEOPLE WITH  DEVELOPMENTAL  DISA-
 BILITIES.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
 addition  and/or  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the
 implementation of this act on its  effective  date  are  authorized  and
 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.