Mental Health And Developmental Disabilities

NY - Senator Robert Ortt (R)

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Chair Person

NY - Senator David Carlucci (D)

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Member

NY - Senator Simcha Felder (D)

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Member

NY - Senator Kemp Hannon (R)

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Member

NY - Senator Terrence P. Murphy (U)

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Member

NY - Senator Susan Serino (R)

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Member

NY - Senator James L. Seward (R)

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Member

NY - Senator Jesse Hamilton (D)

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Member

NY - Senator Liz Krueger (U)

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Member

NY - Senator Gustavo Rivera (D)

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Member

NY - Senator José M. Serrano (U)

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Member

NY - S1124 Relates to ensuring the rights of an individual with a disability or a vulnerable adult during investigations conducted by the justice center

NY - S4180 Relates to reports on priority I and priority II individuals and the services provided to such individuals

NY - S396 Relates to notice of transfer of sex offender to community program or residence

NY - S636 Relates to suicide prevention

NY - A1234 Renames and broadens the geriatric service demonstration program to include older adults with mental health disabilities and chemical dependence

NY - S4094 Provides for the continuity of care to persons with developmental disabilities upon diminution of state operated services to such persons

NY - S129 Enacts the "behavioral health and long-term care act"

NY - S661 Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to submit an updated waitlist and placement report to the senate and assembly

NY - S419 Requires vehicles used to transport recipients of services from a provider, subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, to be equipped with video cameras

NY - S630 Relates to the powers and duties of the justice center

NY - S557 Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence

NY - S1894 Establishes peer crisis diversion residences

NY - S743 Defines a bill of rights for persons with autism or autism spectrum disorders

NY - S1006 Establishes the New York achieving a better life experience (NY ABLE) savings account act

NY - S1205 Relates to the development of a statewide missing person locator system

NY - S1399 Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system

NY - S634 Relates to the creation of an acute psychiatric bed registry

NY - S1503 Relates to the definition of autism

NY - S1488 Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health

NY - A2143 Relates to clinical records and confidentiality

NY - S1917 Relates to the community mental health support and workforce reinvestment program and the community health and workforce reinvestment account; effectiveness

NY - S4981 Relates to the jurisdiction of the justice center's special prosecutor and inspector general

NY - S1907 Provides a mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities

NY - S4973 Relates to the release of patient records by the office of mental health

NY - S5153 Requires the sponsoring agency of a proposed community residence to provide the chief executive officer of the municipality with the number of registered sex offenders who will live in such residence

NY - S4774 Relates to the issuance of guidance documents to certain state oversight agencies for meeting reporting requirements established by the justice center

NY - S2309 Enacts the "freeze unsafe closures now act" to delay the closure and consolidation of state facilities operated by the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - S4722 Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program and eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law

NY - S5060 Relates to appointments and duties of the developmental disabilities advisory council and to the submission and posting of a statewide plan for services

NY - S2562 Directs certain commissioners to study and report on the costs to the state of early diagnosis and treatment of autism

NY - S5210 Relates to grants for mental illness and chemical dependence treatment services during the pendency of a medical assistance eligibility determination

NY - S2644 Relates to establishing a crisis intervention team program

NY - A7053 Relates to appointments and duties of the developmental disabilities advisory council and to the submission and posting of a statewide plan for services

NY - S2639 Establishes the child psychiatry access project within the office of mental health; establishes a gift for such purpose on personal income tax forms

NY - S2640 Requires the development of guidelines to help avert retraumatization of victims of sexual offenses in a behavioral health outpatient setting

NY - S2732 Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center

NY - S4179 Makes technical correction relating to notice of petition for the appointment of a guardian for purposes of property management

NY - S5272 Establishes a right to treatment for seriously emotionally disturbed children who are certified and waiting to be placed in a residential placement facility

NY - S5260 Relates to examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in counties with a population of less than eighty thousand

NY - S2767 Amends the definition of "developmental disability"

NY - S5482 Clarifies the effect of registering an order appointing a guardian of another person or protective order from another state

NY - S4261 Relates to suicide prevention

NY - S5270 Authorizes the civil commitment of detained persons convicted of a misdemeanor sex offense or with a prior conviction in another state of an offense that would be a designated felony

NY - S3561 Requires the office of mental health to develop educational materials for educators regarding suicide prevention

NY - S2937 Establishes within the department of mental hygiene a registry of persons terminated from employment for abuse, neglect or mistreatment of mentally disabled persons

NY - S3211 Provides for the emergency or involuntary admission of persons with mental illness when there is a risk of serious physical harm or serious psychiatric harm

NY - S2876 Relates to the definition of autism

NY - S2972 Relates to integrated housing for individuals with developmental disabilities

NY - S3008 Directs commissioner of transportation, in cooperation with the commissioner of developmental disabilities, to establish an integrated transportation program for persons with certain disabilities

NY - S4642 Requires the petitioner for appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated person to identify all other persons who may be able to manage the affairs of such incapacitated person

NY - S3634 Relates to the creation of a bill of rights for family and guardians of people with developmental disabilities that reside in residences certified or approved by the OPWDD

NY - S3637 Relates to establishing a task force on adults with developmental disabilities

NY - S3661 Relates to the issuance of guidance documents to certain state oversight agencies for meeting reporting requirements established by the justice center

NY - S3648 Establishes a community housing wait list

NY - S3643 Enacts the "people first act of 2016"

NY - S3649 Relates to the administration of services offered by the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - S3645 Requires directors of facilities to perform certain duties to assure patient protection

NY - S840 Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries

NY - S3641 Defines the term autism for the purposes of the education law and the mental hygiene law and the term autism spectrum disorder for the purposes of the insurance law

NY - A7596 Clarifies the effect of registering an order appointing a guardian of another person or protective order from another state

NY - S5630 Directs the office for people with developmental disabilities to study and report on state laws and regulations applicable to military families with family members with developmental disabilities

NY - S616 Creates "Robin's law"; relates to mental health and chemical dependence outpatient treatment of sex offenders

NY - S5680 Relates to clinical records and confidentiality

NY - S5664 Prohibits a mental health care professional from treating a violent patient in a residential building

NY - S5696 Relates to substantial risk or threat of harm by mental health professionals

NY - S5665 Requires every firefighter, police officer, emergency medical technician and certified first responder to complete training on developmental disabilities

NY - S5662 Provides that no antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication which has an increased risk of suicidal behavior in individuals shall be dispensed without consultation and other information to outpatients

NY - S5154 Enacts "Peter Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties

NY - S3650 Relates to involuntary admittance

NY - S5544 Relates to the reimbursement of local services provided to persons with a disability

NY - A5431 Relates to providing confidential OMH records to attorneys representing patients or clients involuntarily placed in certain units

NY - S256 Renames and broadens the geriatric service demonstration program to include older adults with mental health disabilities and chemical dependence

NY - A490 Makes technical correction relating to notice of petition for the appointment of a guardian for purposes of property management

NY - S3893 Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstance

NY - S3628 Relates to peace officer powers of safety officers

NY - S1784 Provides that money damages shall not be considered in determining whether or not there exists an inability to pay for department of mental hygiene services

NY - S3659 Enacts the skills for direct support professional jobs for the developmentally disabled act

NY - S3847 Requires a criminal history report for certain employment or volunteer applicants to the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - A6529 Relates to examination of persons ordered to obtain assisted outpatient treatment in counties with a population of less than eighty thousand

NY - A171 Directs certain commissioners to study and report on the costs to the state of early diagnosis and treatment of autism

NY - S1756 Relates to restraint of individuals in facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health

NY - S3623 Requires video cameras to be placed on the entrance/exits of all facilities run by the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - S1908 Establishes a program of tiered eligibility for services offered by OPWDD for persons with learning disabilities and other complex neurological impairments

NY - S2090 Provides for disclosure of sexual offender information related to a patient or client

NY - S2206 Establishes a peer support program for veterans

NY - S5141 Provides for the reporting of victims of gun violence to the office of mental health

NY - S2759 Creates mental health incident review panels

NY - S2914 Relates to the training of boards of directors or trustees of certain voluntary not-for-profit facilities or corporations

NY - A3866 Relates to the right to counsel for persons who receive services through the office of mental health or the office for people with developmental disabilities for certain investigations

NY - S2728 Provides additional discharge planning for persons being released from civil confinement

NY - S3636 Authorizes the release of certain records pertaining to deceased residents of OPWDD operated or certified facilities to family members

NY - S2465 Relates to fees for services rendered patients in state inpatient facilities pursuant to court orders

NY - S2466 Requires employees and volunteers providing services to persons with developmental disabilities to complete certain training

NY - A3404 Relates to technology systems used for locating missing children with developmental disabilities

NY - A777 Requires employees and volunteers providing services to persons with developmental disabilities to complete certain training

NY - S7678 Relates to reimbursement of transportation services to and from day habilitation programs for people with developmental disabilities

NY - A1459 Provides a mental hygiene legal service to certain patients or residents of residential healthcare facilities

NY - A6114 Establishes a peer support program for veterans

NY - A424 Relates to the creation of a bill of rights for family and guardians of people with developmental disabilities that reside in residences certified or approved by the OPWDD

NY - S7644 Establishes a transformation panel within the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - S121 Designates engaging in sexual orientation change efforts by mental health care professionals upon patients under 18 years of age

NY - S7677 Relates to a study on the recruitment and retention of direct support professionals working with people with developmental disabilities

NY - S7738 Establishes additional notice requirements for site selection for community residential facilities

NY - A4958 Designates engaging in sexual orientation change efforts by mental health care professionals upon patients under 18 years of age

NY - S7424 Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires mental health practitioner to make timely and reasonable efforts to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm

NY - S6612 Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances

NY - S6622 Relates to prohibiting fees to be charged to agencies for copies of certain clinical records

NY - S6674 Enacts the "freeze unsafe closures now act" to delay the closure and consolidation of state facilities operated by the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - S7495 Requires legislative approval for the closure of certain office of mental health, office of people with developmental disabilities or office of children and family services facilities and institutions

NY - S7584 Relates to the authority of the justice center to visit, inspect and appraise the management of out-of-state schools or facilities

NY - S7410 Authorizes the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to have access to certain criminal history

NY - S7414 Relates to the requirement to check the justice center's register of substantial category one cases of abuse or neglect

NY - S7794 Expands the definition of "mental abnormality", for purposes of sex offender civil commitment or supervision, to include antisocial or borderline personality disorder, and psychopathy

NY - S7460 Relates to adult care facilities under the jurisdiction of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs

NY - S7627 Relates to notice of the potential for significant service reductions to persons with mental illness

NY - S7804 Adds siblings to the definition of a qualified person

NY - A6510 Requires the petitioner for appointment of a guardian for an incapacitated person to identify all other persons who may be able to manage the affairs of such incapacitated person

NY - S7449 Establishes a state crisis intervention demonstration program and a crisis intervention team training fund

NY - S6916 Requires the commissioner of mental health to develop detailed definitions of types of injuries that may result from certain attacks by persons in state forensic psychiatric centers

NY - S6840 Establishes the housing opportunities for people to empower excellence and equity (HOPE) trust fund

NY - S7468 Establishes a task force to examine and evaluate the operations of the justice center for the protection of people with special needs

NY - S6010 Relates to the duty to report incidents to 911 and the county district attorney's office

NY - A7226 Relates to the authority of the justice center to visit, inspect and appraise the management of out-of-state schools or facilities

NY - A7533 Requires notice be posted in programs subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, informing employees to call 911 during an emergency

NY - S7882 Relates to the implementation of the New York achieving a better life experience (NY ABLE) savings account act

NY - S7188 Requires notice be posted in programs subject to regulation by the office for people with developmental disabilities, informing employees to call 911 during an emergency

NY - S7930 Requires providers of services to persons with developmental disabilities to have employees having regular contact with such persons to complete an individualized psychological assessment

NY - S7889 Directs the commissioner of mental health to issue a review and report regarding certain facilities

NY - A10053 Establishes a transformation panel within the office for people with developmental disabilities

NY - A3461 Enacts "Peter Falk's law" relating to guardianship duties