Bill Text: NY A10557 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requirements for notice to local governments, community organizations and other interested parties of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-14 - substituted by s7627 [A10557 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A10557-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10557 IN ASSEMBLY June 3, 2016 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gunther) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to notice to local governments of the potential for significant service reductions at certain state-operated hospitals 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 (e) of section 7.17 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 83 of the laws of 1995, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. provide for a mechanism which may reasonably be expected to provide 5 notice to local governments, community organizations, employee labor 6 organizations, managerial and confidential employees, consumer and advo- 7 cacy groups of the potential for significant service reductions at such 8 state-operated hospitals and state-operated research institutes at least 9 twelve months and at most one year and one month prior to commencing 10 such service reduction, provided, however, that this requirement shall 11 be deemed satisfied with respect to reductions at Central Islip Psychi- 12 atric Center, Gowanda Psychiatric Center, Harlem Valley Psychiatric 13 Center, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Willard Psychiatric Center and 14 Manhattan Children's Psychiatric Center; and 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15344-01-6