New York Assembly Bill A01519 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1519 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to residential programs for adults with traumatic brain injuries The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The social services law is amended by adding a new section 2 461-n to read as follows: 3 § 461-n. Residential care programs for adults with traumatic brain 4 injuries. Any residential adult care facility serving residents with 5 traumatic brain injury must hold a national certification by the academy 6 of certified brain injury specialists as a certified brain injury 7 specialist (CBIS), or hold a current professional license or employ a 8 resident manager who holds a current professional license as a physi- 9 cian, nurse practitioner, registered nurse, licensed rehabilitation 10 professional, certified brain injury specialist (CBIS) or licensed 11 mental health professional who is trained and experienced in the care 12 and rehabilitation of residents with traumatic brain injury. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 15 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 16 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before 17 such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01457-01-3