Bill Text: NY S01764 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1764 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to route 988 calls to the national suicide prevention lifeline.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S01764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01764-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1764

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 15, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
          ty and Military Affairs

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division
          of veterans' services to route  988  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 988 calls; national suicide prevention lifeline.
     4  The division shall provide that any person dialing the digits 988  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.
                                                                   LBD05303-02-1