Senate Bill S1354

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the commissioner of the office of mental health to provide monthly status reports of the community investments and the impact on inpatient census

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Current Bill Status Via A613 - Signed by Governor

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S1354 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A613
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene
Laws Affected:
Rpld §7.49, Ment Hyg L (as proposed in S.4253 & A.6506)

2023-S1354 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-S1354 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1354 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1354
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring  monthly  status  reports  of  community
   investments  and the impact on inpatient census; and to repeal certain
   provisions of the mental hygiene law relating thereto

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7.49 of the mental hygiene law, as added by a chap-
 ter  of  the  laws  of 2022, amending the mental hygiene law relating to
 requiring monthly status reports of community investments and the impact
 on inpatient census, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  4253
 and A. 6506, is REPEALED.
   §  2.  The  commissioner  of the office of mental health shall 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  shall  post  such
 reports  on  the  office of mental health's publicly accessible website.
 Such reports shall include, but not be limited to:
   (a) state operated psychiatric facility census;
   (b) occurrence of census exceeding budgeted capacity;
   (c) occurrence of out of catchment area placements;
   (d) admissions and discharges;
   (e) rate of Medicaid psychiatric inpatient readmissions to any  hospi-
 tal within thirty days of discharge;
   (f) Medicaid emergency room psychiatric visits;
   (g) descriptions of new community service investments;
   (h) average length of stay and number of long-term stay patients; and
   (i)  an  explanation  of any material census reductions, when known to
 the facility.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022, amending the mental hygiene law
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03938-01-3

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