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A06505 Summary:

BILL NO	A06505
SAME AS	SAME AS S04630
SPONSOR	Kearns
COSPNSR	Schimminger, Wallace, Giglio, Abinanti, Lavine, Pichardo, Hyndman, Cusick, Barnwell, Vanel, Joyner, Otis, Jean-Pierre, Miller B, Palmesano, Butler, Lawrence, Miller ML, Oaks, Barclay, Johns, Morinello, Goodell, Brabenec, Castorina, Blankenbush, Palumbo, Lalor, Montesano, Walter, Malliotakis, Hawley, McDonough, Friend, Errigo, Garbarino, Walsh, Murray, Raia, DiPietro, Stec, Norris, Crouch, Fitzpatrick, Braunstein, Sepulveda, Peoples-Stokes, McDonald, D'Urso, Titone, Jaffee, Dickens
MLTSPNSR
Amd §7.17, Ment Hyg L
Relates to prohibiting the collocation of certain facilities; prohibits the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center from being collocated or merged with any other facility.

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A06505 Actions:

BILL NO	A06505
03/07/2017	referred to mental health
06/05/2017	reported referred to ways and means
06/12/2017	reported referred to rules
06/14/2017	reported
06/14/2017	rules report cal.292
06/14/2017	ordered to third reading rules cal.292
06/15/2017	substituted by s4630
	S04630 AMEND= GALLIVAN
	02/23/2017	REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
	05/16/2017	1ST REPORT CAL.947
	05/17/2017	2ND REPORT CAL.
	05/22/2017	ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
	06/05/2017	PASSED SENATE
	06/05/2017	DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
	06/05/2017	referred to mental health
	06/15/2017	substituted for a6505
	06/15/2017	ordered to third reading rules cal.292
	06/15/2017	passed assembly
	06/15/2017	returned to senate
	11/22/2017	DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR
	11/29/2017	VETOED MEMO.195

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A06505 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
 submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)



 
BILL NUMBER: A6505
 
SPONSOR: Kearns

 
TITLE OF BILL:
 
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting the
collocation of certain facilities
 
 
PURPOSE:
 
To keep a children's mental health facility that provides a holistic
approach in treating children in crisis with mental health disorders, in
its therapeutic surroundings.
 
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
 
Subdivision ( c ) of section 7.17 of the Mental Hygiene Law to read that
the WNYCPC shall be maintained in a county with a population between
nine hundred thousand and one million people as separate and distinct
entity both organizationally and physically within the office and shall
not be collocated or merged with any other facility.
 
 
JUSTIFICATION:
 
The Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center has received a 99.9%
rating by the Joint Commission on Accredited health Care Organizations
in 2012. WNYCPC was given a special designation as being in the top ten
percent of hospitals accredited by the Joint Commission in the nation.
The Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center leads all other
facilities treating children in the 30 day and 90 day readmission rates
- a statistic which shows that the long term institutionalization and
hospitalization costs are drastically reduced over the life course or
lifespan of the person needing behavioral health services.
 
The WNY Children's Psychiatric Center is in a school and urban setting.
A rural and environmentally friendly environment is therapeutic for
people with mental health disorders. Keeping the WNYCPC in this environ-
ment and area is more beneficial than relocating these children to a
lockdown facility in an urban setting.  The children are also in a
school like setting which is extremely safe and therapeutic for the
mental health disorders and challenges.  Moving this facility will
create long term aggregate losses to the state and harm the state's most
vulnerable populations.
 
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
 
None.
 
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
 
None.
 
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately.

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