STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1417--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. HARCKHAM, BROUK, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KRUEGER, LIU --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the  Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse -- recommitted to the
          Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse in accordance with  Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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 while
     8  such  individual  is  receiving treatment, including but not limited to,
     9  treatment with an inpatient, residential or outpatient treatment provid-
    10  er.  The commissioner shall identify and establish  where  the  recovery
    11  supportive   transportation  services  demonstration  program  shall  be
    12  located, provided that there shall be at least one urban and  one  rural
    13  demonstration program.
    14    2.  Recovery  supportive  transportation services shall be provided to
    15  ensure the individual is able to receive treatment, services and partic-
    16  ipate in other activities that are a part of the individual's  treatment
    17  or necessary to help maintain stability to continue their recovery.
    18    3. No later than January first, two thousand twenty-three, the commis-
    19  sioner  shall  provide  the  governor,  the  temporary  president of the
    20  senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairs of  the  senate  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08112-05-2

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     1  assembly  committees  on alcoholism and drug abuse with a written evalu-
     2  ation of the demonstration program. Such evaluation shall, at a minimum,
     3  address the overall effectiveness of such demonstration program, identi-
     4  fy  best  practices  for  recovery  supportive  transportation  services
     5  provided under such demonstration program, and  suggest  any  additional
     6  recovery supportive services that may be appropriate within each type of
     7  program  operated,  regulated,  funded,  or  approved  by the office and
     8  address whether continuation or expansion of such demonstration  program
     9  is  recommended.  The  written evaluation shall be made available on the
    10  office's website.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect June 1, 2022.