Bill Text: NY A04224 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the division of veterans' services to route 988 calls to the national suicide prevention lifeline.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-14 - enacting clause stricken [A04224 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04224-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4224 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 1, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to directing the division of veterans' services to route 988 calls to the national suicide prevention lifeline The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 353-b 2 to read as follows: 3 § 353-b. Routing of 988 calls; national suicide prevention lifeline. 4 The division shall provide that any person dialing the digits 988 shall 5 be automatically redirected and connected to the national suicide 6 prevention lifeline telephone number. The division shall work in cooper- 7 ation with the office of information technology services, landline and 8 wireless telephone service providers and federal, state and local agen- 9 cies in carrying out the provisions of this section. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05303-02-1