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A08477 Summary:
BILL NO | A08477A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS S05762-A |
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SPONSOR | Rules (Silver) |
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COSPNSR | Connelly, Brennan, Hoyt, Higgins, Parment, Smith, Abbate, Boyland, Canestrari, Cook, Destito,DiNapoli, Dinowitz, Gantt, Greene, Gunther, Harenberg, Lafayette, Matusow, Mayersohn, Mazzarelli,Ortiz, Pheffer, Sidikman, Tokasz, Weprin |
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Amd Ment Hyg L, generally; amd S6, Chap 560 of 1994 | |
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Enacts "Kendra's Law"; enhances the supervision and coordination of care of persons with mental illness in community-based settings by providing assisted outpatient treatment; provides for the establishment of assisted outpatient treatment as a permanent mode of treatment, improved coordination of care for mentally ill persons living in the community, the expansion of the use of conditional release in psychiatric hospitals, and the improved dissemination of information between and among mental health providers and general hospital emergency rooms. |