Bill Text: NY S06761 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-19 - referred to mental health [S06761 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06761-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6761--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 16, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  ALCANTARA,  HAMILTON, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Rules  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
          mental Disabilities in accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        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 (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) 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.
                                                                   LBD11874-05-8