| NY | S05491 | Intro
25% | Establishes a mental wellness group pilot program to partner with insurance companies to facilitate group therapy sessions for children ages ten through eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05407 | Intro
25% | Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| NY | S05273 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of mental health to establish programs for the training and development of persons capable of providing coaching and support to individuals under treatment plans developed by licensed mental health practitioners, including but not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| NY | S00254 | Intro
25% | Relates to the hospitalization, care coordination, and assisted outpatient treatment for persons with mental illness by qualified clinical examiners or qualified mental health professionals; defines qualified clinical examiner and qualified mental he...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| NY | S05296 | Intro
25% | Establishes Nicole's law, which provides for intake and discharge procedures regarding individuals with self-inflicted, life-threatening injuries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| NY | S04990 | Intro
25% | Establishes parity in reimbursement rates for the first twenty-four hours of supportive stabilization services provided that are substantially equivalent to crisis stabilization center services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | S04918 | Intro
25% | Creates 10 interagency placement committees throughout the state to recommend treatment and rehabilitation programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities; directs such committees to establish a process by which youths can be r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| NY | S04713 | Intro
25% | Allows direct descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer to access such patient's clinical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| NY | S04345 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of mental health to review all proposals by an agency to provide new services at a new facility, expand the size of existing facilities or change the type of services that are provided at facilities within a city of one milli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | S04342 | Intro
25% | Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility; requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
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| NY | S04130 | Intro
25% | Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04291 | Intro
25% | Relates to the discharge of residents of a community residence; provides that nothing shall be deemed construed as creating a relationship of landlord and tenant between an operator of a community residence and a resident; defines community residence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04246 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; provides that such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04212 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state crisis intervention demonstration program and a crisis intervention team training fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S04178 | Intro
25% | Establishes a workgroup to conduct analysis on the ambulatory patient group rates and commercial insurance rates for behavioral health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-03
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| NY | S03983 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "New York City Training And Comprehension of Trauma in Children (TACTIC) Act"; establishes the TACTIC council; provides for a trauma informed care training program to teachers in schools located in the city of New York; creates a departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S04102 | Intro
25% | Requires the establishment of community housing waiting lists within the office of mental health service system; directs each provider of housing services in the office of mental health system to provide, on a monthly basis, the office of mental heal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03996 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03979 | Intro
25% | Establishes peer crisis diversion homes; requires the commissioner to establish or contract for no less than six peer crisis diversion homes within one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03969 | Intro
25% | Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-31
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| NY | S03897 | Intro
25% | Requires the New York State Office of Mental Health to study the effects that awareness of or exposure to police shootings or killings of unarmed African Americans has on the mental health of African Americans in New York state and to deliver a findi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| NY | S03610 | Intro
25% | Creates the twelve member rural suicide prevention council to examine the causes of rural suicides or attempts and to make recommendations for rural suicide reduction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | S03670 | Intro
25% | Creates statewide emergency and crisis response council to work in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and addiction services to jointly approve emergency and crisis services plans submitted by local governments, and provide supports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | S03715 | Intro
25% | Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| NY | S03472 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| NY | S03474 | Intro
25% | Enhances the assisted outpatient treatment program; eliminates the expiration and repeal of Kendra's Law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-27
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| NY | S02649 | Intro
25% | Enacts "Karilyn's law"; provides that the court set the date for proceedings relating to family visitation under a guardianship petition for not more than ten days from the signing of the order to show cause; provides that visitation shall be a rebut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
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| NY | S02450 | Intro
25% | Adds gaming disorder to the types of disorders classified in the mental hygiene law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| NY | S02406 | Intro
25% | Relates to establishing residential treatment facilities as an alternative to incarceration designated by the commissioner for the care and treatment of persons with serious mental illness who are accused of at least one felony level crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-17
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| NY | S02206 | Intro
25% | Prevents discrimination against persons with physical or mental disabilities in regards to organ donations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-15
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| NY | S01729 | Intro
25% | Requires a report by December 1, 2027 to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly on comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01797 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of addiction and mental health services; corrects references; makes related provisions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01727 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the commissioner of mental health to establish up to three, three-year pilot programs in community behavioral health organizations for the purposes of creating social worker pilot programs to support the ongoing retention and recruitment o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01728 | Intro
25% | Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01780 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health and the director of the state office for the aging shall establish a mental home health services program for the aging to facilitate access to mental home health services to respond to identifie...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-13
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| NY | S01366 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
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| NY | S01392 | Intro
25% | Requires the state to reimburse municipalities for loss of real property tax revenue resulting from the establishment of community residential facilities for the disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-09
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| NY | S01007 | Intro
25% | Establishes a youth mental health advisory board consisting of youths aged 16-20 to examine and make recommendations for legislation and initiatives regarding issues of youth mental health including social media, bullying, substance use, trauma, pove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00728 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller, attorney general, and members of the legislature, provided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability to manage i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00997 | Intro
25% | Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to waive rules and regulations to address barriers to participation in the program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01080 | Intro
25% | Relates to hospitalization, care coordination, and assisted outpatient treatment for persons with mental illness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00041 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of mental health to develop materials relating to suicide prevention and identifying signs of depression for school-aged children; authorizes school districts to include suicide prevention in health class curriculum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S00506 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a community member who resides in the community, or a community ambassador, to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01029 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of health to conduct a study to identify, analyze, report, and medically combat new or previously unseen opiate/opioid compounds found in overdose patients in New York state for the purpose of establishing more efficient over...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01005 | Intro
25% | Establishes a youth mental telehealth services program to facilitate access to mental health services, including substance use disorder services, for youth to respond to identified mental health needs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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| NY | S01000 | Intro
25% | Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-08
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