Bill Text: NY A10257 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to route 838 calls to the national suicide prevention lifeline.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-08 - referred to veterans' affairs [A10257 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10257-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10257

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of veterans' services to route  838  calls  to  the  national  suicide
          prevention lifeline

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

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  353-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  353-b.  Routing of 838 calls; national suicide prevention lifeline.
     4  The division shall provide that any person dialing the digits 838  shall
     5  be  automatically  redirected  and  connected  to  the  national suicide
     6  prevention lifeline telephone number. The division shall work in cooper-
     7  ation with the office of information technology services,  landline  and
     8  wireless  telephone service providers and federal, state and local agen-
     9  cies in carrying out the provisions of this section.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15886-01-0