STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4274

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 31, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, SANTABARBARA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  members  of  a
          mobile crisis team

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subdivision (a) of  section  36.03  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law,  as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (11) "Mobile crisis  teams"  means  a  team  licensed,  certified,  or
     5  authorized  by  the  office of mental health and the office of addiction
     6  services and  supports  to  provide  community-based  mental  health  or
     7  substance  use disorder interventions for individuals who are experienc-
     8  ing a mental health or substance  use  disorder  crisis.  Members  of  a
     9  mobile  crisis  team  [may] shall include any combination of, but not be
    10  limited to: behavioral health professionals, certified peer specialists,
    11  certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family  peer  advocates,
    12  and credentialed youth peer advocates.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06532-01-5