Bill Text: NY A07686 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides addiction and mental health services training, including crisis intervention team training, mental health first aid, implicit bias training and naloxone training, to firefighters and emergency medical services personnel.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-06 - signed chap.185 [A07686 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07686-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7686

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 19, 2021
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        Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Mental Health

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to providing  crisis
          intervention  team  training,  mental  health first aid, implicit bias
          training and naloxone training to firefighters and  emergency  medical
          services personnel

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (g) of section 36.01 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as added by section 3 of part AA of chapter 57 of the laws of  2021,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (g)  Within  the amounts appropriated, the commissioners shall arrange
     5  for appropriate training to law enforcement entities, first  responders,
     6  including but not limited to firefighters and emergency medical services
     7  personnel,  and any other entities deemed appropriate by the commission-
     8  ers, located within the catchment area of a crisis stabilization center.
     9  The training may include but not be limited to: (1) crisis  intervention
    10  team  training; (2) mental health first aid; (3) implicit bias training;
    11  and (4) naloxone training. Such training may be provided in an electron-
    12  ic format or other format as deemed appropriate  by  the  commissioners.
    13  The  commissioners  may contract with an organization with the knowledge
    14  and expertise in providing the training required under this subdivision.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    16  manner  as section 3 of part AA of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021, takes
    17  effect.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11592-01-1