| NY | S03587 | Engross
50% | Establishes the rural suicide prevention council to identify barriers to mental health and substance use treatment and prevention services and other policies, practices, resources, services, and potential legislation that aim to reduce death by suici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-11
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| NY | S09017 | Intro
25% | Provides that court records in a proceeding under articles 77, 78 and 81 of the mental hygiene law shall not be perused, examined, disclosed, taken or copied by any other person than a party, the attorney or counsel of a party, the guardian, the cour...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
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| NY | S08967 | Intro
25% | Allows direct descendants of a patient who has been deceased for a period of fifty years or longer to access such patient's clinical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-03
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| NY | S08820 | Intro
25% | Establishes a statewide person-centered mental health services work group to improve statewide mental health planning and outcomes to achieve a person-centered, prevention-first integrated and tiered system of care for holistic health and wellness.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
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| NY | A04308 | Engross
50% | Relates to the geriatric demonstration program to promote mental health and home care collaboration; authorizes the commissioner of mental health to identify barriers to participation in the program and make recommendations to address such barriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
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| NY | S08765 | Intro
25% | Directs the office of mental health to establish programs for the training and development of persons capable of providing coaching and support to individuals under treatment plans developed by licensed mental health practitioners, including but not ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
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| NY | S08754 | Intro
25% | Authorizes a community member or community ambassador to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
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| NY | S08597 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the commissioner of mental health to establish up to three, three-year pilot programs in community behavioral health organizations for the purposes of creating social worker residency pilot programs to support the ongoing retention and rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
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| NY | A07395 | Engross
50% | Provides for definitions of mental health and family and youth peer advocates and requires the office of mental health to establish peer service qualification programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| NY | S08537 | Intro
25% | Creates 10 interagency placement committees throughout the state to recommend treatment and rehabilitation programs or strategies for youths with co-existing mental disabilities; directs such committees to establish a process by which youths can be r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| NY | S08418 | Intro
25% | Requires the office of mental health to conduct a study on utilizing the therapeutic techniques studied by the research and recognition project for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| NY | S07079 | Intro
25% | Establishes the "first responder peer support program act" which supplies peer-to-peer mental health programs to first responders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| NY | S08359 | Intro
25% | Establishes a youth mental health advisory board consisting of youths aged 16-20 to examine and make recommendations for legislation and initiatives regarding issues of youth mental health including social media, bullying, substance use, trauma, pove...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| NY | S08354 | Intro
25% | Establishes the office of addiction and mental health services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
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| NY | S08133 | Intro
25% | Requires the petitioner for appointment as the guardian for an incapacitated person to identify all other persons who may be able to manage the affairs of such incapacitated person; prohibits appointment solely for the purposes of bill collection or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-08
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| NY | S07968 | Intro
25% | Requires the development of guidelines and procedures by the office of mental health to help avert retraumatization of victims of sexual offenses in a behavioral health outpatient setting.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
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| NY | S07969 | Intro
25% | Imposes a duty to protect upon mental health practitioners; requires reasonable efforts to modify aspects of treatment in order to reduce or eliminate the risk of harm, initiating procedures for hospitalization, notifying the intended victim or victi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
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| NY | S07966 | Intro
25% | Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-04
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| NY | S02398 | Intro
25% | Creates statewide emergency and crisis response council to work in conjunction with the commissioners of mental health and addiction services to jointly approve emergency and crisis services plans submitted by local governments, and provide supports ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00740 | Intro
25% | Relates to establishing residential treatment facilities as an alternative to incarceration designated by the commissioner for the care and treatment of persons with serious mental illness who are accused of at least one felony level crime.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02886 | Intro
25% | Provides that a sponsoring agency shall give notice to persons owning property within 500 feet of a proposed site of a community residential facility; requires hearings to include evaluation of alternative sites; gives the municipality additional tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S00231 | Intro
25% | Authorizes the governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature and any employee of the inmate-patient facility as requested by the member of the legi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07155 | Intro
25% | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S01924 | Intro
25% | Relates to mandatory continuing education for teachers relating to mental health issues.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07267 | Intro
25% | Relates to establishing emergency mental health units; provides for certification of all emergency mental health units, the creation of regional emergency mental health unit councils, and a New York state emergency mental health unit council to devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04371 | Intro
25% | Requires a certified dietitian, pursuant to the education law, on-site during hours of operation in order to apply as a comprehensive care center for eating disorders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07247 | Intro
25% | Establishes the eating disorders in children task force to study and create a standardized approach to, and develop best practices and guidelines for awareness, recognition, and treatment of eating disorders in children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05179 | Intro
25% | Enacts "Jesse's law" to provide that a person subject to involuntary emergency admission for immediate observation, care, and treatment of mental illness shall have the right to select the hospital they are admitted to.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07238 | Intro
25% | Establishes a mental wellness group pilot program to partner with insurance companies to facilitate group therapy sessions for children ages ten through eighteen.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05148 | Intro
25% | Requires the New York State Office of Mental Health to study the effects that awareness of or exposure to police shootings or killings of unarmed African Americans has on the mental health of African Americans in New York state and to deliver a findi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05857 | Intro
25% | Establishes a crisis intervention team training demonstration program; establishes a crisis intervention team training program advisory committee and crisis intervention team training fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S04208 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of the office for people with developmental disabilities to deny employment or volunteer applications based on a criminal history report for such applicant.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05273 | Intro
25% | Amends the definition of "developmental disability" to include an inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of the disability.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03120 | Intro
25% | Permits that when the division of criminal justice services has provided criminal history information within the previous twelve months to any state agency for certain individuals, such information can be used to satisfy the required criminal history...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05284 | Intro
25% | Provides legal assistance to youth ordered by the court into the custody of the office of children and family services and placed or committed to a state operated juvenile detention center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03480 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "employment first choice act" to ensure that an individual with developmental disabilities in a nonintegrated setting shall have the right to remain in such a setting under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S01545 | Intro
25% | Adds gaming disorder to the types of disorders classified in the mental hygiene law.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02359 | Engross
50% | Directs the commissioner of mental health to establish a maternal mental health workgroup to study and issue recommendations related to maternal mental health and perinatal and postpartum mood and anxiety disorders; identifies underrepresented and vu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03087 | Intro
25% | Requires providers of residential services to developmentally disabled children to have surveillance cameras in the common areas of their residential facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07151 | Intro
25% | Relates to restraint of individuals in facilities under the jurisdiction of the office of mental health; establishes procedures which must be followed in order to restrain patients who are served in mental hygiene facilities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05627 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "New York City Training And Comprehension of Trauma in Children (TACTIC) Act"; establishes the TACTIC council; provides for a trauma informed care training program to teachers in schools located in the city of New York; creates a departmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05875 | Intro
25% | Establishes a state crisis intervention demonstration program and a crisis intervention team training fund.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05367 | Intro
25% | Establishes parity in reimbursement rates for the first twenty-four hours of supportive stabilization services provided that are substantially equivalent to crisis stabilization center services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07307 | Intro
25% | Allows for certain rules and regulations to be waived in order to promulgate collaboration between mental health providers to develop programs for the benefit of the mentally ill.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S05508 | Intro
25% | Relates to involuntary in-patient mental health treatment where care and treatment in a hospital is essential to a person's welfare if, in the absence of such care and treatment, the person's mental illness is likely to result in serious harm.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S03382 | Intro
25% | Authorizes and directs the commissioner of mental health to conduct a study on the suicide rates of taxi medallion holders and taxi drivers in the state and make a report and recommendations on the findings of such study within one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S07306 | Intro
25% | Requires the state to reimburse municipalities for loss of real property tax revenue resulting from the establishment of community residential facilities for the disabled.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02899 | Intro
25% | Directs the commissioner of mental health to review all proposals by an agency to provide new services at a new facility, expand the size of existing facilities or change the type of services that are provided at facilities within a city of one milli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S02925 | Intro
25% | Ensures that the office of mental health and the office for people with developmental disabilities provide materials to individuals in English and the top six languages spoken in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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| NY | S06375 | Intro
25% | Enacts the "minority mental health act" to establish the division of minority mental health within the office of mental health; provides that such division shall be responsible for assuring that mental health programs and services are culturally and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
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