Bill Text: NY A06514 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6514

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes a community member or community ambassador to apply for involuntary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to mental health [A06514 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06514-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6514

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 12, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  authorizing  a
          member  of the community or a community ambassador to apply for invol-
          untary admission of a person alleged to be mentally ill

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Tony's law".
     2    §  2.  Subparagraph  (b)  of section 9.27 of the mental hygiene law is
     3  amended by adding a new paragraph 12 to read as follows:
     4    12. a member of the community in which the person  dwells  or  resides
     5  who  is  over the age of eighteen, or a community ambassador in counties
     6  or localities that have an established community ambassador program.
     7    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10550-01-3