Bill Text: NY S03230 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3230 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the community chemical dependence services expansion program; provides funding for local governmental units for the provision of new and expanded chemical dependency services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-11 - PRINT NUMBER 3230A [S03230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03230-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3230--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug  Abuse
          --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Alcoholism  and Drug Abuse in
          accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing  the
          community chemical dependence services expansion program and providing
          for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
          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  22.13 to read as follows:
     3  § 22.13 Community chemical dependency services expansion program.
     4    (a)  Community  chemical  dependence services expansion funds shall be
     5  annually allocated by the commissioner based upon the  following  crite-
     6  ria:
     7    1.  the  efficiency and effectiveness of the use of funding within the
     8  local governmental unit for the delivery of  services  to  persons  with
     9  serious  chemical  dependency in order to assure that resources are made
    10  available to persons in the community;
    11    2. provisions that grantees of such funds for the provision  of chemi-
    12  cal dependence detoxification services shall have a  mechanism  to  link
    13  all  clients  receiving detoxification services to ongoing treatment for
    14  chemical dependency immediately upon the conclusion of their detoxifica-
    15  tion; and
    16    3. other relevant factors that require  the  maintenance  of  existing
    17  chemical dependency services and the development of new chemical depend-
    18  ency services.
    19    (b)  Amounts  provided  pursuant to this section shall only be used to
    20  fund chemical dependence treatment  services,  including  detoxification
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05264-02-6