Bill Text: NY A08667 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of the office of mental health to promulgate rules and regulations prohibiting any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or sponsored by the state from being automated.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to mental health [A08667 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08667-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8667

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 23, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Mental Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene law, in relation to prohibiting
          certain suicide prevention and mental health  services  hotlines  from
          being automated

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

     1    Section 1. Section 7.09 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (l) to read as follows:
     3    (l) The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations  prohibit-
     4  ing any suicide prevention or mental health services hotline operated or
     5  sponsored by the state from being automated.
     6    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     7  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     8  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
     9  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    10  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13903-01-9