Bill Text: NY S07776 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-30 - referred to mental health [S07776 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07776-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7776 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE November 29, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting certain suicide prevention and mental health services hotlines from being automated The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision (n) to read as follows: 3 (n) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations prohibit- 4 ing any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or 5 sponsored by the state from being automated. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 7 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 8 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 9 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 10 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07121-01-3
