Bill Text: NY A04903 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4903

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the office of addiction services and supports to assure that persons who suffer from a substance use disorder have the right to seek and receive addiction services, care, treatment and rehabilitation services based on the individual's gender identity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-21 - substituted by s993a [A04903 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04903-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4903

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 24, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law,  in relation to accessing
          substance use disorder services based on the individual's gender iden-
          tity, gender expression and/or sexual orientation

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 19.07 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  281 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (c) The office of [alcoholism and substance abuse services]  addiction
     5  services  and  supports  shall  have  the responsibility for seeing that
     6  persons who suffer from [an addictive disorder] a substance use disorder
     7  and their families are provided with addiction services, care and treat-
     8  ment, and that such services, care, treatment and rehabilitation  is  of
     9  high  quality  and effectiveness, and that the personal and civil rights
    10  of persons seeking and receiving addiction services, care, treatment and
    11  rehabilitation are adequately protected, including  that  patients  have
    12  the  right  to  access  services  based on their gender identity, gender
    13  expression and/or sexual orientation. For the purposes of this  subdivi-
    14  sion,  gender  identity  or gender expression means a person's actual or
    15  perceived gender related identity, appearance, behavior, expression,  or
    16  other  gender  related  characteristic regardless of the sex assigned to
    17  that person at birth.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04075-03-3