Bill Text: NY S07155 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a transgender and non-binary peer support grant program which shall grant awards to eligible entities for the purpose of establishing peer-to-peer mental health programs for transgender and non-binary individuals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S07155 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07155-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7155

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 18, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation  to  establishing  a
          transgender and non-binary peer support grant program

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

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  7.51 to read as follows:
     3  § 7.51 Transgender and non-binary peer support grant program.
     4    (a) As used in this section:
     5    (1)  "Program" shall mean the "transgender and non-binary peer support
     6  grant program" established by this section.
     7    (2) "Eligible entities"  shall  mean  entities  which  submit  to  the
     8  commissioner  an  application, in a form prescribed by the commissioner,
     9  containing such information  and  assurances  as  the  commissioner  may
    10  require  to  provide  initial  and continued training in mental illness,
    11  including but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder and  suicide
    12  prevention.
    13    (b)  The  commissioner  shall,  subject  to appropriation, establish a
    14  grant program to be  known  as  the  "transgender  and  non-binary  peer
    15  support grant program".
    16    (c)  The  program shall award grants, with appropriations therefor, to
    17  eligible entities for the purpose of  establishing  peer-to-peer  mental
    18  health programs for transgender and non-binary individuals.
    19    (d)  The commissioner shall develop and establish standards applicable
    20  to the program.  Such standards shall include, but not  be  limited  to,
    21  initial  and  continued  training  for transgender and non-binary volun-
    22  teers, administrative staffing needs, and best practices for  addressing
    23  the needs of the community to be served.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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