Bill Text: NY S00993 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the office of addiction services and supports to assure that persons who suffer from a substance use disorder have the right to seek and receive addiction services, care, treatment and rehabilitation services based on the individual's gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-06-25 - SIGNED CHAP.141 [S00993 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00993-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         993--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Alcoholism  and
          Substance   Abuse  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend  the  mental  hygiene  law,  in  relation  to  accessing
          substance use disorder services based on the individual's gender iden-
          tity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as amended by chapter 281 of the laws of 2019, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (c)  The office of [alcoholism and substance abuse services] addiction
     5  services and supports shall have  the  responsibility  for  seeing  that
     6  persons who suffer from [an addictive disorder] a substance use disorder
     7  and their families are provided with addiction services, care and treat-
     8  ment,  and  that such services, care, treatment and rehabilitation is of
     9  high quality and effectiveness, and that the personal and  civil  rights
    10  of persons seeking and receiving addiction services, care, treatment and
    11  rehabilitation  are  adequately  protected, including that patients have
    12  the right to access services based  on  their  gender  identity,  gender
    13  expression  and/or sexual orientation. For the purposes of this subdivi-
    14  sion, gender identity or gender expression means a  person's  actual  or
    15  perceived  gender related identity, appearance, behavior, expression, or
    16  other gender related characteristic regardless of the  sex  assigned  to
    17  that person at birth.
    18    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    19  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04075-02-3