New York Assembly Bill A10125 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10125  IN ASSEMBLY May 6, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Mental Health AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to allowing direct descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer to access such patient's clinical records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 6 of subdivision (a) of section 33.16 of the 2 mental hygiene law, as amended by chapter 233 of the laws of 2017, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 6. "Qualified person" means any properly identified patient or client, 5 guardian of a person with a developmental disability appointed pursuant 6 to article seventeen-A of the surrogate's court procedure act, or 7 committee for an incompetent appointed pursuant to this chapter or a 8 parent of an infant, or a guardian of an infant appointed pursuant to 9 article seventeen of the surrogate's court procedure act or other legal- 10 ly appointed guardian of an infant who may be entitled to request access 11 to a clinical record pursuant to paragraph three of subdivision (b) of 12 this section, or a parent, spouse, adult child, or adult sibling of an 13 adult patient or client who may be entitled to request access to a clin- 14 ical record pursuant to paragraph four of subdivision (b) of this 15 section, or a direct descendant of a former patient or client who has 16 been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15122-01-4