Bill Text: NY A05041 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 5041

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that a collective bargaining agreement or employment contract shall not require that an emergency dispatcher employed by a municipality obtain approval from, or provide notice to, a supervisor to access mental or behavioral health care services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental employees [A05041 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05041-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5041

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Employees

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to access  to  mental
          health care services for emergency dispatchers

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

     1    Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  155 to read as follows:
     3    §  155. Access to mental health care for certain employees. No collec-
     4  tive bargaining agreement or employment contract entered into by a muni-
     5  cipality and an employee or an employee organization representing  emer-
     6  gency  dispatchers  employed  by such municipality shall require that an
     7  emergency dispatcher obtain approval  from,  or  provide  notice  to,  a
     8  supervisor  to  access  mental  or  behavioral  health care services. No
     9  mental or behavioral health care services requested or  received  by  an
    10  emergency dispatcher shall be disclosed to a municipal employer.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08795-01-3