Bill Text: NY A06523 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the office of temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction with the office of mental health and the office of children and family services, to develop a mental illness training course to be utilized by providers of temporary housing assistance to focus on recognizing signs and symptoms of mental illness.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-31 - print number 6523a [A06523 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06523-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6523--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Social Services -- reported and  referred
          to  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN  ACT  to amend the social services law, in relation to mental illness
          training in temporary housing

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

     1    Section 1. Article 2-A of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new title 3 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 3
     4                MENTAL ILLNESS TRAINING IN TEMPORARY HOUSING
     5  Section 47. Training  to  recognize  the  signs  and  symptoms of mental
     6                illness.
     7    § 47. Training to recognize the signs and symptoms of mental  illness.
     8  1.  The  office  of  temporary and disability assistance, in conjunction
     9  with the office of mental health and the office of children  and  family
    10  services, shall develop a training course to be utilized by providers of
    11  temporary  housing assistance. Such training course shall focus on iden-
    12  tifying best practices to recognize the signs  and  symptoms  of  mental
    13  illness  and providing referrals, as appropriate, to individuals who may
    14  be suffering from a mental illness.
    15    2. Providers of temporary housing assistance shall  include,  but  are
    16  not  limited  to,  a  family  shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an
    17  emergency apartment, a domestic violence shelter, a runaway and homeless
    18  youth shelter, or a safe house for refugees operating in the state.
    19    3. Such training shall be provided to  all  employees  and  volunteers
    20  working or volunteering at a provider of temporary housing assistance.
    21    4. Providers of temporary housing assistance shall ensure at least one
    22  employee or volunteer who provides intake services and has received such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00514-02-4
        A. 6523--A                          2

     1  training  is  at  the  facility at all times, when applicable law, regu-
     2  lation, code, or operating plan approved by a social  services  district
     3  or  the commissioner otherwise requires employees or volunteers to be at
     4  the premises.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.