Bill Text: NY S02639 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes the child psychiatry access project; provides that the office of mental hygiene shall establish regional child psychiatry access projects across the state to provide primary care providers with timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist such primary care providers in meeting the mental health needs of the children and adolescents and their families; establishes a gift for the child psychiatry access project on state personal income tax forms, the proceeds from which shall be deposited into a child psychiatry access fund for the funding of such projects.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-03 - PRINT NUMBER 2639A [S02639 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02639-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2639--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 27, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities -- recommitted to the Committee on  Mental  Health
          and  Developmental Disabilities in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
          8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing the
          child psychiatry access project; to amend the tax law, in relation  to
          establishing  a  gift  for the child psychiatry access project; and to
          amend the state finance law, in relation  to  establishing  the  child
          psychiatry access fund
          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  7.42 to read as follows:
     3  § 7.42 Child psychiatry access project.
     4    (a)  The office shall, within amounts appropriated therefor, establish
     5  or may contract for  the  establishment  of  regional  child  psychiatry
     6  access  projects across the state to provide primary care providers with
     7  timely access to child psychiatry consultations in order to assist  such
     8  primary  care  providers in meeting the mental health needs of the chil-
     9  dren and adolescents and their families.
    10    (b) Regional teams shall consist of a child psychiatrist  with  appro-
    11  priate  support  staff,  and be established to provide child psychiatric
    12  telephone consultations to primary care providers within the  designated
    13  region  resulting  in  one of the following, depending upon the needs of
    14  the child patient and/or family:
    15    1. Responding to the primary care physician's patient  specific  ques-
    16  tions about behavioral health;
    17    2.  Assisting the family in accessing routine, local behavioral health
    18  services, with the understanding there may be a waiting period;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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