New York Senate Bill 7269 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: Introduced on May 19 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
Pending: Senate Mental Health Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: (i) identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; (ii) initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; (iii) identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; (iv) identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; (v) public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and (vi) any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.

Relates to establishing the New York state council on mental health emergency and crisis response to make recommendations on topics including but not limited to: (i) identifying best practices for response to mental health crises; (ii) initiatives to increase training opportunities and participation of mental health professionals, and other qualified individuals as members of mobile crisis outreach teams; (iii) identify training needs and methods to improve diversion from hospitalization after response from a mobile crisis outreach team; (iv) identify the need for establishing mobile crisis outreach teams in each region of the state and accessing alternatives to hospitalization; (v) public education and outreach on the benefit of mobile crisis outreach teams and how to access their services; and (vi) any other recommendation deemed appropriate by the council.

Sen. Kevin Parker [D]

Sen. John Liu [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-03	Senate	REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH
2023-05-19	Senate	REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S7269
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S07269&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S07269