Bill Text: NY A09571 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Limits the amount of addiction and substance abuse facilities to five within the jurisdiction of each community board in the city of New York.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-16 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [A09571 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A09571-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9571 IN ASSEMBLY March 16, 2022 ___________ 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 limiting the amount of 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 (b) of section 19.17 of the mental hygiene law, 2 as amended by chapter 596 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (b) The commissioner shall establish the areas which each facility 5 under his or her jurisdiction shall serve and the categories of patients 6 which each such facility shall receive, retain, or treat. In cities with 7 a population of one million or more, the commissioner shall ensure that 8 there are no more than five facilities operating pursuant to this arti- 9 cle within the jurisdiction of each community board. The commissioner 10 shall provide for priority of admission for persons whose children have 11 been placed in foster care or are in jeopardy of being so placed pursu- 12 ant to article ten of the family court act or article six of the social 13 services law. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14787-01-2
