Bill Text: NY A08713 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Creates a web-based acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate and display information about available acute beds in public and private psychiatric facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-03 - held for consideration in mental health [A08713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08713-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8713--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 4, 2014
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Mental  Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  creation  of
         an acute psychiatric bed registry
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
    2  9.65 to read as follows:
    3  S 9.65 ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY.
    4    (A)  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  DEVELOP  AND ADMINISTER A WEB-BASED ACUTE
    5  PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY TO COLLECT, AGGREGATE, AND DISPLAY  INFORMATION
    6  ABOUT  AVAILABLE  ACUTE BEDS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC
    7  FACILITIES AND PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESIDENTIAL CRISIS STABILIZATION UNITS
    8  TO FACILITATE THE IDENTIFICATION AND DESIGNATION OF FACILITIES  FOR  THE
    9  TEMPORARY  DETENTION  AND TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MEET THE CRITERIA
   10  FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE.
   11    (B) THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY CREATED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION
   12  (A) OF THIS SECTION SHALL:
   13    1. INCLUDE DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION FOR EVERY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE  INPA-
   14  TIENT PSYCHIATRIC FACILITY AND EVERY PUBLIC OR PRIVATE CRISIS STABILIZA-
   15  TION UNIT IN THE STATE, INCLUDING CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE FACILITY;
   16    2. PROVIDE REAL-TIME INFORMATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF BEDS AVAILABLE AT
   17  EACH  FACILITY AND, FOR EACH AVAILABLE BED, THE TYPE OF PATIENT THAT MAY
   18  BE ADMITTED, THE LEVEL OF SECURITY PROVIDED, AND ANY  OTHER  INFORMATION
   19  THAT  MAY  BE  NECESSARY  TO  ALLOW  EMPLOYEES OR DESIGNEES OF COMMUNITY
   20  SERVICES BOARDS AND EMPLOYEES  OF  PSYCHIATRIC  FACILITIES  TO  IDENTIFY
   21  APPROPRIATE  FACILITIES  FOR  DETENTION AND TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO
   22  MEET THE CRITERIA FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE; AND
   23    3. ALLOW EMPLOYEES AND DESIGNEES  OF  COMMUNITY  SERVICES  BOARDS  AND
   24  EMPLOYEES  OF PSYCHIATRIC FACILITIES TO PERFORM SEARCHES OF THE REGISTRY
   25  TO IDENTIFY AVAILABLE BEDS THAT ARE APPROPRIATE FOR  THE  DETENTION  AND
   26  TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WHO MEET THE CRITERIA FOR TEMPORARY DETENTION.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13783-04-4
       A. 8713--A                          2
    1    (C)  EVERY STATE FACILITY, COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
    2  AUTHORITY, AND PRIVATE PROVIDER LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PARTIC-
    3  IPATE IN THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC  BED  REGISTRY  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT  TO
    4  SUBDIVISION  (A)  OF  THIS  SECTION AND SHALL DESIGNATE AN INDIVIDUAL TO
    5  SUBMIT  INFORMATION  FOR INCLUSION IN THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY
    6  AND SERVE AS A POINT OF CONTACT FOR ADDRESSING REQUESTS FOR  INFORMATION
    7  RELATED TO DATA REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY. INFORMA-
    8  TION  REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY SHALL BE UPDATED AT
    9  LEAST DAILY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   11  it shall have become a law.