Bill Text: NY S02403 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically and making recommendations regarding cultural and linguistic competency and best practices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-12-12 - SIGNED CHAP.630 [S02403 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02403-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2403 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop- mental Disabilities AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to reviewing suicide prevention programs periodically The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 7.07 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision (h) to read as follows: 3 (h) The office shall periodically review suicide prevention programs 4 established, licensed, certified, or funded by the office to ensure that 5 the needs of individuals at risk of suicide are being met and make 6 recommendations to improve such programs, which shall include but not be 7 limited to: (1) cultural and linguistic competency; and (2) best prac- 8 tices for screening and interventions aimed at addressing suicide risk 9 factors for minority groups and other underrepresented populations. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08779-01-9
