Bill Text: NY S01416 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides the commissioner of mental health may authorize the certification of recovery living residence and provide a list of such residences on the department of mental hygiene's website.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-07 - referred to alcoholism and drug abuse [S01416 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01416-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1416

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to certifying recov-
          ery living residences

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

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  32.05-a to read as follows:
     3  § 32.05-a Certification of recovery living residences.
     4    Notwithstanding  section  32.05  of this article, the commissioner may
     5  authorize the certification of recovery living  residences.    "Recovery
     6  living  residences"  shall  mean any residence located in New York state
     7  where the owner or operator of such residence holds the residence out to
     8  the public as a living environment for persons recovering from substance
     9  use disorder, where no formal treatment substance use disorder  services
    10  are  provided  on-site.  The department shall create a list of certified
    11  recovery residences and make  such  list  publicly  available  on  their
    12  website.
    13    §  2.   This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05597-01-1
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