Int. No. 1237-A
By Council Members Cabrera, Cohen, Richards, Palma, Koo, Grodenchik, Kallos, Barron and Rosenthal
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reviewing the administration for children’s services maintenance of health records for youth in the juvenile justice system
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Chapter 9 of title 21 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to add new section 21-913 to read as follows:
§ 21-913 Electronic health records in juvenile detention facilities. ACS shall conduct an internal review of the effectiveness of the current system for maintaining health records created for individuals in juvenile detention facilities including whether maintaining such records electronically would improve the current system and submit to the council, by December 31, 2017, a report including recommendations for improvements to the health records maintenance system and a timeframe for implementation of such improvements.
§2. This local law takes effect immediately and is deemed repealed after the submission of the report required in section one.
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