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- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
- Reported and committed to finance
- Referred to mental health and developmental disabilities
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Relates to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries
In Assembly Committee · Mental Health · Sponsor Harvey Weisenberg
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S2514
Title of bill
An act to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries
Purpose
To mark headstones or otherwise memorialize patients interred at state mental health hospital cemeteries.
Summary of provisions
The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section, 33.27-a&b.
§33.27-a:
- Requires that the names, dates of birth and dates of death of patients buried in state mental health hospital cemeteries be made available to mark headstones or otherwise memorialize patients interred at these cemeteries.
- This information shall be made available fifty years after the death of a patient.
§33.27-b:
Adds a definition for "state mental health hospitals," to mean any state funded institution to care for and help treat the mentally ill or developmentally disabled in New York State, including former asylums for the insane.
Justification
Many state-funded institutions to care for and help treat the mentally ill or developmentally disabled in New York State have cemeteries with formerly interred patients that have unmarked graves. This bill will allow for information to be released to mark the graves of former Patients of these state-funded institutions.
Legislative history
2012 - Referred to Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the 120th day after becoming law.
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