Bill Text: NY S01417 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes an addiction recovery supportive transportation services demonstration program to provide such transportation services to individuals while such individual is receiving treatment, including, but not limited to, inpatient, residential or outpatient treatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - PRINT NUMBER 1417A [S01417 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1417

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse

        AN  ACT  to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing an
          addiction recovery supportive  transportation  services  demonstration
          program

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

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  19.18-a to read as follows:
     3  § 19.18-a Addiction  recovery  supportive transportation services demon-
     4              stration program.
     5    1. The commissioner shall develop  an  addiction  recovery  supportive
     6  transportation   services  demonstration  program.  Such  program  shall
     7  provide  recovery  supportive  transportation  services  to  individuals
     8  during  treatment,  including but not limited to, inpatient, residential
     9  and outpatient treatment, and after the  completion  of  treatment.  The
    10  commissioner  shall identify and establish where the recovery supportive
    11  transportation services demonstration program shall be located, provided
    12  that there shall be at least  one  urban  and  one  rural  demonstration
    13  program.
    14    2.  Recovery  supportive transportation services shall include assist-
    15  ance for individuals that support their continuation  in  treatment  and
    16  their continuation in recovery.
    17    3.  No  later than January first, two thousand twenty-two, the commis-
    18  sioner shall provide  the  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the
    19  senate,  the  speaker  of the assembly, and the chairs of the senate and
    20  assembly committees on alcoholism and drug abuse with a  written  evalu-
    21  ation of the demonstration program. Such evaluation shall, at a minimum,
    22  address the overall effectiveness of such demonstration program, identi-
    23  fy  best  practices  for  recovery  supportive  transportation  services

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  provided under such demonstration program, and  suggest  any  additional
     2  recovery supportive services that may be appropriate within each type of
     3  program  operated,  regulated,  funded,  or  approved  by the office and
     4  address  whether continuation or expansion of such demonstration program
     5  is recommended. The written evaluation shall be made  available  on  the
     6  office's website.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect April 1, 2021.