Bill Text: NY S09652 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a report by December 1, 2026 to the governor, temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly on comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs in the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH [S09652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09652-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9652

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BROUK  -- 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  comprehensive
          psychiatric emergency programs

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

     1    Section 1. Section 31.27 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i)  The  commissioner  and the commissioner of health shall prepare a
     4  report to be submitted to the governor, the temporary president  of  the
     5  senate,  and the speaker of the assembly. Such report shall be submitted
     6  no later than December first, two thousand  twenty-six;  and  every  two
     7  years thereafter. Such report shall include, but not be limited to:
     8    (i) The number of comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs operat-
     9  ing in the state;
    10    (ii) The number of individuals admitted to the comprehensive psychiat-
    11  ric  emergency programs, including the number of individuals admitted to
    12  the comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs that:
    13    (A) did not need the level of care the programs administer;
    14    (B) needed more acute care; and
    15    (C) received the correct level of care;
    16    (iii) The average wait times in the comprehensive psychiatric emergen-
    17  cy programs;
    18    (iv) The number of individuals successfully  admitted  to  alternative
    19  care  after  their  visit  to  the  comprehensive  psychiatric emergency
    20  programs;
    21    (v) The demographics of those admitted to the comprehensive  psychiat-
    22  ric  emergency  programs,  including,  but  not  limited  to, age, race,
    23  gender, housing status and other factors;
    24    (vi) The rate at which individuals who seek care or  are  admitted  to
    25  comprehensive  psychiatric emergency programs that do not need the level
    26  of care provided by such programs;
    27    (vii) The number of individuals who are  released  from  comprehensive
    28  psychiatric   emergency  programs  without  successful  placement  after

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  release, including individuals with no  release  plans;  the  number  of
     2  individuals  who had release plans with another service or provider; and
     3  the coordination efforts  after  an  individual  receives  care  from  a
     4  comprehensive psychiatric emergency program;
     5    (viii) The number of complaints related to care for each comprehensive
     6  psychiatric emergency program; and
     7    (ix) Recommendations on how to best divert those with less acute needs
     8  away from comprehensive psychiatric emergency programs.
     9    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    10  the amendments to subdivision (i) of section 31.27 of the mental hygiene
    11  law added by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    12  subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.