Bill Text: NY A03787 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports, in consultation with the director of the state office for the aging, to develop comprehensive substance use disorder prevention, education and treatment demonstration programs for senior citizens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A03787 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03787-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3787

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, SEAWRIGHT, JEAN-PIERRE, CRUZ -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to establish senior citizen substance use disorder  demonstration
          programs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Legislative intent. The latest New York State census  iden-
     2  tifies  twelve  and three-tenths percent of the state's residents as age
     3  sixty-five or older. The New York state office of addiction services and
     4  supports has identified substance use disorders among  the  elder  popu-
     5  lation as a serious and growing problem. This can result from isolation,
     6  depression or the interaction of prescribed drugs.
     7    It is, therefore, the intention of the legislature to eliminate barri-
     8  ers  to  effective  substance use disorder services through this act, by
     9  establishing substance use disorder prevention, education and  treatment
    10  demonstration  programs  for  senior citizens in the office of addiction
    11  services and supports.
    12    § 2. The commissioner of the office of addiction services and supports
    13  in consultation with the director of the  office  for  the  aging  shall
    14  develop  comprehensive  substance use disorder prevention, education and
    15  treatment demonstration programs to address  the  unique  needs  of  the
    16  elderly.
    17    §  3.  Subject  to  appropriation,  funds for support of demonstration
    18  projects for the purposes stated in section two of  this  act  shall  be
    19  allocated  to  eligible  local  governments and not-for-profit providers
    20  through a request for proposal process to be designed by the  office  of
    21  addiction  services and supports in consultation with the office for the
    22  aging.
    23    § 4. In  reviewing  applications  for  funding,  the  commissioner  of
    24  addiction  services  and supports shall consider such factors as program
    25  cost-effectiveness; the ability of such proposals to  offer  programmat-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  ically  appropriate, long-term, stable services; and the ability of such
     2  proposals to enable elderly persons to receive  substance  use  disorder
     3  services;  and  geographic need. While incidence and prevalence shall be
     4  significant factors in the distribution of funds, demonstration projects
     5  approved pursuant to this act shall be established in regions across the
     6  state.
     7    §  5. No expenditure shall be made until the commissioner of addiction
     8  services and supports  has  approved  a  program  and  fiscal  plan  for
     9  substance use disorder prevention, education and treatment demonstration
    10  projects. Such plan shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
    11    i.  Specific  criteria  to  be  applied in evaluating the requests for
    12  proposal;
    13    ii. Uniform program and cost standards;
    14    iii. Criteria to be used to evaluate the outcome of the  demonstration
    15  projects,  including  specific  requirements  to  be met by providers of
    16  service.
    17    § 6. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    18  the date on which it shall have become a law.