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

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8713
                                 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
       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 in 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.
   27    (C) EVERY STATE FACILITY, COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD, BEHAVIORAL  HEALTH
   28  AUTHORITY, AND PRIVATE PROVIDER LICENSED BY THE DEPARTMENT SHALL PARTIC-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13783-01-4
       A. 8713                             2
    1  IPATE  IN  THE  ACUTE  PSYCHIATRIC  BED REGISTRY ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO
    2  SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION  AND  SHALL  DESIGNATE  AN  EMPLOYEE  TO
    3  SUBMIT  INFORMATION  FOR INCLUSION IN THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY
    4  AND  SERVE AS A POINT OF CONTACT FOR ADDRESSING REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION
    5  RELATED TO DATA REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY. INFORMA-
    6  TION REPORTED TO THE ACUTE PSYCHIATRIC BED REGISTRY SHALL BE UPDATED  AT
    7  LEAST DAILY.
    8    (D)  THE  COMMISSIONER MAY ENTER INTO A CONTRACT WITH A PRIVATE ENTITY
    9  FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND ADMINISTRATION  OF  THE  ACUTE  PSYCHIATRIC  BED
   10  REGISTRY ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION.
   11    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   12  it shall have become a law.