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]
Download: New_York-2021-S01417-Introduced.html
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]
Download: New_York-2021-S01417-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1417 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 12, 2021 ___________ 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. LBD08112-01-1S. 1417 2 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.