What's happening
The bill updates language regarding patient transportation, allowing individuals to request same-gender staff accompaniment within staffing limits.
Why it matters
Expands patient rights. by allowing all individuals, not just females, to request same-gender staff during transportation—addressing privacy, safety, and comfort for a broader group, including non-binary or transgender patients.
Modernizes language. in the law, replacing outdated gender-specific terms with more inclusive language, which may help reduce discrimination or assumptions about patient needs.
Balances patient preference with operational limits. by making the accommodation dependent on staffing availability, acknowledging both individual dignity and practical constraints faced by facilities.
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Who cares
Individuals transported to or from mental hygiene facilities
The bill would allow individuals of any gender to request same-gender staff accompaniment, subject to staffing limitations.
Female patients
The bill would replace mandatory accompaniment by another female, with specified family exceptions, with discretionary same-gender staff accompaniment upon request.
Mental hygiene facilities and transportation staff
The bill would make same-gender staff accompaniment optional and contingent on a request and staffing availability.
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Update Patient Transport Rules
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
2 Co-sponsors
History
- Signed chap.251
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 60–2
- 3rd reading cal.1479
- Substituted for S8592
- Referred to rules
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.67
- Rules report cal.67
- Reported
Show 2 earlier actions
- Reported referred to rules
- Referred to mental health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Update Patient Transport Rules
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Robert Ortt
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
10708
IN ASSEMBLY
May 14, 2018
Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER -- (at request of the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to transportation of patients
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 33.17 of the mental hygiene law, as renumbered by chapter 978 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows: § 33.17 Transportation of [female patients] individuals.
[Any female patient] Within staffing limitations and upon request, an individual who is being transported to or from a facility [shall] may be accompanied by [another female, unless accompanied by her father, brother, husband, or son] same gender staff.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14367-02-8
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