Bill Text: NY S06226 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders to be paid by the county in which the court is located for the first thirty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S06226 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06226-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6226
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 8, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
         mental Disabilities
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to fees for services
         rendered patients held in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court
         orders
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 43.03 of the mental hygiene law,
    2  as  amended  by  chapter  7  of  the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    (c) Patients receiving services while being held pursuant to order  of
    5  a criminal court, other than patients committed to the department pursu-
    6  ant  to section 330.20 of the criminal procedure law, or for examination
    7  pursuant to an order of the family court shall  not  be  liable  to  the
    8  department  for such services. Fees due the department for such services
    9  shall be paid by the county in which such court is located [except  that
   10  counties]  FOR  UP  TO  AND  INCLUDING  ONLY  THE  FIRST  THIRTY DAYS OF
   11  SERVICES. COUNTIES shall not be responsible for  the  cost  of  services
   12  rendered patients committed to the department pursuant to section 330.20
   13  of  the  criminal  procedure law or patients committed to the department
   14  pursuant to article ten of this chapter.
   15    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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