Bill Text: NY A08016 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that members of a mobile crisis team include at least one certified peer specialist with lived experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to mental health [A08016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08016-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8016

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation  to  requiring  that
          mobile  crisis  teams  include  certified  peer specialists with lived
          experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  11  of subdivision (a) of section 36.03 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as added by section 2 of part EE of  chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (11)  "Mobile  crisis  teams"  means  a  team  licensed, certified, or
     5  authorized by the office of mental health and the  office  of  addiction
     6  services  and  supports  to  provide  community-based  mental  health or
     7  substance use disorder interventions for individuals who are  experienc-
     8  ing  a  mental  health  or  substance  use disorder crisis. Members of a
     9  mobile crisis team shall include at least one certified peer  specialist
    10  with  lived  experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations.
    11  Members of a mobile crisis team may include,  but  not  be  limited  to:
    12  behavioral  health  professionals,  certified  peer  specialists without
    13  lived experience with emotional and behavioral crisis situations, certi-
    14  fied recovery peer advocates, credentialed family  peer  advocates,  and
    15  credentialed youth peer advocates.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13096-01-3