Bill Text: NY A02972 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes an intensive addiction recovery and mental health integrated services pilot program to support two three-year demonstration programs that provide intensive addiction and mental health integrated services to individuals with significant addiction and mental health issues who have had multiple and frequent treatment episodes.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to ways and means [A02972 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02972-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2972

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. WOERNER, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to  establishing  an
          intensive  addiction  recovery  and  mental health integrated services
          pilot 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.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
     2  "Topher's Law".
     3    §  2.    The  mental  hygiene  law  is amended by adding a new section
     4  19.18-d to read as follows:
     5  § 19.18-d Intensive addiction  and  mental  health  integrated  services
     6              pilot program.
     7    1.  Within the funds appropriated to the office, a pilot program shall
     8  be established to support two  three-year  demonstration  programs  that
     9  provide  intensive  addiction  and  mental health integrated services to
    10  individuals with significant addiction and mental health issues who have
    11  had multiple and frequent treatment episodes.  One of the  demonstration
    12  programs shall be located in a rural area and one shall be located in an
    13  urban  setting as determined by the commissioner.  The services provided
    14  shall include but not be limited to mental  health  counseling  services
    15  for  the individual experiencing significant addiction and mental health
    16  issues and their family, peer supports, and  transportation  assistance.
    17  Such  services  shall  be primarily provided in the community or home of
    18  such individual, as clinically and socially necessitated.
    19    2. Not later than June thirtieth, two thousand twenty-six, and annual-
    20  ly thereafter, the commissioner shall provide the governor,  the  tempo-
    21  rary  president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, the chair of
    22  the senate standing committee on alcoholism  and  drug  abuse,  and  the
    23  chair  of  the  assembly  committee  on alcoholism and drug abuse with a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06362-01-3
        A. 2972                             2

     1  written evaluation of the demonstration programs established pursuant to
     2  subdivision one of this section.  Such evaluation shall, at  a  minimum,
     3  address  the overall effectiveness of such demonstration programs, iden-
     4  tify  best  practices  for  services  provided  under  the demonstration
     5  programs and any additional services that may be appropriate within each
     6  type of program operated, regulated, funded, or approved by the  office,
     7  and  address  whether  continuation  or  expansion  of the pilot program
     8  established by subdivision one of this  section  is  recommended.    The
     9  written  evaluation  shall  be  made  publicly available on the office's
    10  website.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect April 1, 2024 and shall  expire  March
    12  31,  2027 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be deemed
    13  repealed.