Bill Text: NY S08117 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a family support and recovery services program to provide services to patients and families during treatment for alcoholism and substance abuse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S08117 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08117-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8117
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 29, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to a family  support
          and  recovery  services  program; and providing for the repeal of such
          provisions upon the expiration thereof
          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  19.18-b to read as follows:
     3  § 19.18-b Family support and recovery services demonstration program.
     4    1. Within available appropriations, the commissioner shall  develop  a
     5  family support and recovery services program. This program shall provide
     6  family  support  and recovery services to adolescent and adult patients,
     7  and their families, during treatment, including,  but  not  limited  to,
     8  inpatient  and  outpatient  treatment,  and  shall  be available to such
     9  patients and their families for up to twelve months after completion  of
    10  such treatment program. The commissioner shall identify where the family
    11  support  and  recovery  services programs will be established; provided,
    12  however, that one such program shall be established in western New  York
    13  and another such program shall be in Long Island.
    14    2. Family support and recovery services shall include:
    15    (a) treatment placement services;
    16    (b) housing placement services;
    17    (c) peer supports, including peer to peer support groups;
    18    (d) employment support; and
    19    (e) transportation assistance.
    20    3.  Not  later  than April first, two thousand twenty-one, the commis-
    21  sioner shall provide  the  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
    22  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, the chair of the senate standing
    23  committee on alcoholism and drug abuse and the  chair  of  the  assembly
    24  committee  on  alcoholism  and drug abuse with written evaluation of the
    25  program. Such evaluation shall, at a minimum, address the overall effec-
    26  tiveness of this program, identify best practices for family support and
    27  recovery services provided under this program, and any additional family
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15066-02-8
        S. 8117                             2
     1  support and recovery services that may be appropriate within  each  type
     2  of  program  operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the office. The
     3  written evaluation shall be made available on the office's website.
     4    §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     5  deemed repealed April 1, 2021.