Bill Text: NY A07788 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7788 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of health to create a list of information by means of which to contact the NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-14 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A07788 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07788-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7788--A
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 17, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. DINOWITZ, BOYLAND -- read once and referred to
         the Committee on Aging -- reported and referred to  the  Committee  on
         Rules  --  Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  requiring  the
         commissioner  of  health  to  create  a list of long-term care contact
         information for the NY Connects: Choices for Long Term Care program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.   The public health law is amended by adding a new section
    2  2997-e to read as follows:
    3    S 2997-E. PROVISION OF CONTACT INFORMATION RELATING TO LONG TERM CARE.
    4  1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE STATE OFFICE FOR  THE
    5  AGING, CREATE A LIST OF CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE NY CONNECTS: CHOICES
    6  FOR  LONG TERM CARE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION EIGHT OF
    7  SECTION TWO HUNDRED THREE OF THE  ELDER  LAW,  LOCAL  AREA  AGENCIES  ON
    8  AGING,  LOCAL  DEPARTMENTS  OF SOCIAL SERVICES, AND LOCAL DEPARTMENTS OF
    9  HEALTH TO BE ORGANIZED BY COUNTY, PROVIDED THAT IN A CITY WITH  A  POPU-
   10  LATION  OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, SUCH CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LOCAL AGEN-
   11  CIES MAY BE THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND NON-EMERGENCY SERVICES  CITI-
   12  ZEN SERVICE CENTER IN SUCH CITY. THIS LIST SHALL BE UPDATED PERIODICALLY
   13  AS NEEDED. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE SUCH LIST TO HEALTH CARE PRAC-
   14  TITIONERS  CERTIFIED  OR LICENSED UNDER THIS CHAPTER AND, IN CONJUNCTION
   15  WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, TO ALL  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDERS  AND
   16  HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONERS LICENSED UNDER THE EDUCATION LAW.
   17    2. WHENEVER A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER OR PRACTITIONER MAKES A RECOMMENDA-
   18  TION  REGARDING  THE  NECESSITY OF LONG TERM CARE SERVICES OR A REFERRAL
   19  FOR THE RECEIPT OF LONG TERM CARE SERVICES TO A PATIENT, THE PATIENT  OR
   20  PATIENT'S DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE HEALTH CARE
   21  PROVIDER  OR  PRACTITIONER THE CONTACT INFORMATION FROM THE LIST CREATED
   22  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS  SECTION  THAT  CORRESPONDS  TO  THE
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10910-09-1
       A. 7788--A                          2
    1  PATIENT'S  COUNTY  OF RESIDENCE OR PROSPECTIVE COUNTY OF RESIDENCE BASED
    2  ON THE PREFERENCE OF THE PATIENT.
    3    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    4  have become a law.