Bill Text: NY A06910 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services to ensure persons have accessible healthcare, treatment capacities and harm reduction services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A06910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06910-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6910

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law,  in  relation  to  establishing,
          incorporating  and certifying addiction and substance abuse facilities
          in the city of New York

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  271 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (g) (1) The commissioner shall establish and operate chemical  depend-
     5  ence  programs,  facilities, and services for the prevention, treatment,
     6  and rehabilitation, including relapse prevention  and  recovery  mainte-
     7  nance,  of  persons  who  abuse  or  are  dependent  on  alcohol  and/or
     8  substances, and significant others not limited to the psychiatric  model
     9  but embodying all recognized or promising approaches.
    10    (2)  In  cities  with a population of one million or more, the commis-
    11  sioner shall ensure persons have accessible healthcare, treatment capac-
    12  ities and harm reduction services; provided, however,
    13    (i) in any one of the assembly districts, the number of persons cannot
    14  exceed two percent of the total number of persons enrolled in the office
    15  of addiction services and supports programs;
    16    (ii) in any of the assembly districts, the number  of  persons  cannot
    17  fall  below .2% of the total number of persons enrolled in the office of
    18  addiction services and supports programs;
    19    (iii) in any  one  location,  or  within  one  hundred  feet  of  such
    20  location,  the  number of persons cannot exceed one percent of the total
    21  number of persons enrolled in  the  office  of  addiction  services  and
    22  supports programs; and
    23    (iv)  no  license  shall  be  issued  on the same street or within two
    24  hundred feet of a building that is used exclusively as a school, church,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  synagogue or  other  place  of  worship,  or  another  existing  program
     2  licensed by the office of addiction services and supports.
     3    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     4  have become a law.