Bill Text: NY A09673 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Directs the office of mental health, in consultation and cooperation with the education department, to establish the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot program and appropriates $12,000,000 therefor; provides for the implementation of such program within 24 schools in 5 school districts in the state; provides each such school shall have an additional social worker; requires youth mental health first aid training be provided to teachers, professionals and after care workers in such schools; provides for the establishment of mental health curriculum in such schools.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-02 - held for consideration in education [A09673 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09673-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9673--A IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, CRESPO, MOSLEY, HYNDMAN, SIMON, WALK- ER, JOYNER, ROBINSON, LIFTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDO- NOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law and the education law, in relation to establishing the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot program; making an appropriation therefor; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "urban 2 youth gun violence reduction pilot program". 3 § 2. Title B of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new 4 article 11 to read as follows: 5 ARTICLE 11 6 URBAN YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE 7 REDUCTION PILOT PROGRAM 8 Section 11.01 Definitions. 9 11.03 Establishment. 10 11.05 Social worker services. 11 11.07 Youth mental health first aid training. 12 11.09 Mental health curriculums. 13 § 11.01 Definitions. 14 As used in this article: 15 (a) "Gun violence" means physical injuries and deaths caused by the 16 use of firearms. 17 (b) "Mental health first aid" means the recognition of the symptoms of 18 common mental illnesses and chemical dependency; the safe de-escalation 19 of crisis situations; and the initiation of timely referral of appropri- 20 ate students to mental health and chemical dependency resources within 21 the community. 22 (c) "Program" means the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot 23 program established in section 11.03 of this article. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13033-04-6A. 9673--A 2 1 § 11.03 Establishment. 2 The office, in consultation and cooperation with the education depart- 3 ment, shall establish and operate, within five school districts in the 4 state, the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot program. Such 5 program shall provide for the implementation of urban youth gun violence 6 reduction programs in twenty-four schools within communities which have 7 high rates of gun violence. 8 § 11.05 Social worker services. 9 The program shall provide for the employment of one additional social 10 worker at and in each of the twenty-four participating schools. 11 § 11.07 Youth mental health first aid training. 12 (a) The office and education department shall jointly establish and 13 provide for the provision of youth mental health first aid training to 14 all teachers and professionals working in participating schools having 15 grades seven through twelve. 16 (b) All staff members of after school programs in participating 17 schools shall complete such youth mental health first aid training as 18 shall be determined by the office. In addition each such after school 19 program shall have a social worker present during its hours of opera- 20 tion. 21 § 11.09 Mental health curriculums. 22 The office shall enter into a contract with a responsible and quali- 23 fied party for the establishment of three mental health curriculums for 24 students in participating schools in grades kindergarten through five, 25 grades six through eight, and grades nine through twelve. Such responsi- 26 ble and qualified party shall maintain a working advisory council and 27 provide technical assistance to the office, education department and 28 participating schools during the implementation of its curriculums. 29 § 3. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 30 subdivision 55 to read as follows: 31 55. The commissioner shall provide for and assist in the implementa- 32 tion of the urban youth gun violence reduction pilot program, pursuant 33 to article eleven of the mental hygiene law. 34 § 4. The sum of twelve million dollars ($12,000,000), or so much ther- 35 eof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the office of mental 36 health out of any moneys in the state treasury in the general fund to 37 the credit of the state purposes account, not otherwise appropriated, 38 and made immediately available, for the purpose of carrying out the 39 provisions of this act. Such moneys shall be payable on the audit and 40 warrant of the comptroller on vouchers certified or approved by the 41 commissioner of mental health in the manner prescribed by law. 42 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that: 43 (a) sections one through three of this act shall take effect on the 44 date the funds authorized for appropriation under section four of this 45 act become available; provided that the director of the budget shall 46 notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the date such funds 47 provided for in section four of this act in order that the commission 48 may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base of the official 49 text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of effectuating 50 the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of 51 the public officers law; 52 (b) sections two and three of this act shall expire and be deemed 53 repealed three years after they shall have become a law; and 54 (c) effective immediately, any rules and regulations necessary to 55 implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are author- 56 ized and directed to be completed on or before such date.
