Bill Text: NY A10202 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 10202

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the office of mental health to convene statewide forums and listening sessions in areas with high rates of death by suicide, suicide attempts, or other risk factors associated with suicide, and high risk minority groups or special populations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - reported referred to ways and means [A10202 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10202-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10202

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          office  of  mental  health to convene forums and listening sessions in
          areas with high rates of death by suicide, suicide attempts, or  other
          risk factors associated with suicide, and high risk minority groups or
          special populations

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

     1    Section 1. Section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) The office of mental health shall  convene  statewide  forums  and
     4  listening sessions for the purpose of meeting its statutory responsibil-
     5  ities  and  duties pursuant to subdivisions (g) and (h) of this section.
     6  Such forums and listening sessions shall be conducted in  areas  of  the
     7  state  which  have  high rates of death by suicide, suicide attempts, or
     8  other risk factors associated  with  suicide,  and  high  risk  minority
     9  groups  or  special populations, including but not limited to Latina and
    10  Latino adolescents, black youth, individuals residing in rural  communi-
    11  ties,  veterans,  members  of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
    12  community, and any other group deemed high risk or  underserved  by  the
    13  office.  The  office  may consult or work collaboratively with any state
    14  agency, advocacy group, or association to promote or convene a forum  or
    15  listening  session. The office shall include its findings and any recom-
    16  mendations resulting from a forum or listening  session  in  its  report
    17  required pursuant to subdivision (g) of this section.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15556-01-4