Bill Text: NY A06531 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to providing confidential OMH records to attorneys representing patients or clients involuntarily placed in correctional special housing or residential mental health treatment units.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-02-04 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [A06531 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A06531-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6531
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     April 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Mental Health
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing  confi-
         dential office of mental health records to attorneys
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subdivision (c)  of  section  33.13  of  the
    2  mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 158 of the laws of 2005, is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    3. to attorneys representing patients or  clients  in  proceedings  in
    5  which  the  patients' or clients' involuntary hospitalization, PLACEMENT
    6  IN A CORRECTIONAL SPECIAL HOUSING  UNIT  OR  RESIDENTIAL  MENTAL  HEALTH
    7  TREATMENT UNIT, or assisted outpatient treatment is at issue.
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09685-01-3