Bill Text: NY A10915 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the Officer Ron Griffith law enforcement personnel peer support program to provide grants, within appropriations therefor, to eligible entities for the purpose of establishing peer-to-peer mental health programs for law enforcement personnel; and makes an appropriation therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to codes [A10915 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10915-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10915

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to establishing the Offi-
          cer Ron Griffith law enforcement personnel peer support  program;  and
          making an appropriation therefor

          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  the  "Officer
     2  Ron Griffith law enforcement personnel peer support program act".
     3    §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 837-w to
     4  read as follows:
     5    § 837-w. Law enforcement personnel peer support program.  (a) For  the
     6  purposes  of  this section, the following terms shall have the following
     7  meanings:
     8    (1) "Program" shall mean the "Officer  Ron  Griffith  law  enforcement
     9  personnel peer support program" established by this section.
    10    (2)  "Eligible  entities"  shall  mean  an entity which submits to the
    11  commissioner an application, in a form prescribed by  the  commissioner,
    12  containing  such  information  and  assurances  as  the commissioner may
    13  require to provide initial and continued  training  in  mental  illness,
    14  including  but not limited to post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide
    15  prevention, for law enforcement personnel volunteers.
    16    (b) The commissioner shall establish a grant program to  be  known  as
    17  the  "Officer  Ron  Griffith  law  enforcement  personnel  peer  support
    18  program". Such  program  shall  provide  grants,  within  appropriations
    19  therefor,  to eligible entities for the purpose of establishing peer-to-
    20  peer mental health programs for law enforcement personnel.
    21    (c) The commissioner shall  establish  standards  applicable  to  such
    22  program. Such standards shall include initial and continued training for
    23  law  enforcement  personnel  peer  volunteers,  administrative  staffing
    24  needs, and best practices for addressing the needs of each member of law
    25  enforcement personnel served.
    26    (d) Grants may be awarded by the commissioner to an eligible entity in
    27  an amount that does not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16786-02-0

        A. 10915                            2

     1    (e) The commissioner shall not require  the  recipient  of  any  grant
     2  under  this  section  to  maintain  records on law enforcement personnel
     3  seeking support or report any personal identifying information  directly
     4  or indirectly to the commissioner.
     5    §  3. The sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000), or so much thereof
     6  as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated  to  the  office  of  mental
     7  health  out  of  any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to
     8  the credit of the state purposes account,  not  otherwise  appropriated,
     9  and  made  immediately  available,  for  the purpose of carrying out the
    10  provisions of this act.
    11    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
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