Bill Text: NY A09344 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides outreach services to make certain stakeholders aware of the independent substance use disorder and mental health ombudsman program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-08-17 - signed chap.517 [A09344 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09344-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9344--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 23, 2022
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  mental  hygiene  law,  in relation to providing
          outreach services to make certain stakeholders aware of the  independ-
          ent substance use disorder and mental health ombudsman program

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (a) of section 33.27 of the mental hygiene law,
     2  as added by section 1 of part FF of chapter 57 of the laws of  2018,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  There  is  hereby  established  the  office  of  the  independent
     5  substance use disorder and mental health ombudsman program that will  be
     6  operated  or  selected by the office of [alcoholism and substance abuse]
     7  addiction services and supports, in  consultation  with  the  office  of
     8  mental  health for the purpose of assisting individuals with a substance
     9  use disorder and/or mental illness to ensure that they receive appropri-
    10  ate health insurance coverage. The  office  of  addiction  services  and
    11  supports  in consultation with the office of mental health shall provide
    12  annual outreach services to other state and  local  entities,  including
    13  but  not  limited  to the division of veterans' services, the office for
    14  people with developmental disabilities, the office of children and fami-
    15  ly services, the department of corrections, or providers  contracted  by
    16  such  agencies to provide assistance to the impacted populations to make
    17  them aware of the independent substance use disorder and  mental  health
    18  ombudsman program and the assistance they provide.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14401-02-2