Bill Text: NY A08016 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that members of a mobile crisis team shall include any combination of behavioral health professionals, certified peer specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [A08016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08016-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8016--B
                                                                   R. R. 250

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 1, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. CUNNINGHAM, SANTABARBARA, DE LOS SANTOS -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Mental Health -- recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Mental  Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to
          the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, passed by Assem-
          bly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote recon-
          sidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place  on  the
          special order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental hygiene law, in relation to members of a
          mobile crisis team

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  11  of subdivision (a) of section 36.03 of the
     2  mental hygiene law, as added by section 2 of part EE of  chapter  57  of
     3  the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (11)  "Mobile  crisis  teams"  means  a  team  licensed, certified, or
     5  authorized by the office of mental health and the  office  of  addiction
     6  services  and  supports  to  provide  community-based  mental  health or
     7  substance use disorder interventions for individuals who are  experienc-
     8  ing  a  mental  health  or  substance  use disorder crisis. Members of a
     9  mobile crisis team [may] shall include[, but not be limited  to:  behav-
    10  ioral  health  professionals,]  at  least  one behavioral health profes-
    11  sional, and to the extent practicable, any combination of certified peer
    12  specialists, certified recovery peer advocates, credentialed family peer
    13  advocates, and credentialed youth peer advocates.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13096-05-4