Bill Text: NY S09742 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that members of a mobile crisis team shall include at least one behavioral health professional and any combination of certified peer specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-30 - PRINT NUMBER 9742A [S09742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09742-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9742--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 24, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  members  of  a
          mobile crisis team

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 11 of subdivision (a) of  section  36.03  of  the
     2  mental  hygiene  law,  as added by section 2 of part EE of chapter 57 of
     3  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (11) "Mobile crisis  teams"  means  a  team  licensed,  certified,  or
     5  authorized  by  the  office of mental health and the office of addiction
     6  services and  supports  to  provide  community-based  mental  health  or
     7  substance  use disorder interventions for individuals who are experienc-
     8  ing a mental health or substance  use  disorder  crisis.  Members  of  a
     9  mobile  crisis  team [may] shall include[, but not be limited to: behav-
    10  ioral health professionals,] at  least  one  behavioral  health  profes-
    11  sional, and to the extent practicable, any combination of certified peer
    12  specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer
    13  advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13096-04-4